The Penultimate Peril
- New York: Harper Collins, c2005
- 353 pgs illus
- Series of Unfortunate Events No. 12 .
Added to collection November 2005 from Scholastic Bonus coupons.
The Baudelaire orphans begin their journey in a cab with a distraught pregnant woman named Kit Snicket while on route to the Hotel Denouement and must pose as concierges while trying to ferret out the secrets of the elusive sugar bowl.