I’m sorry to say that this is a very unpleasant book about three young Baudelaire orphans, who sadly lost both their parents in a huge fire. They are taken away by the bank manger Mr Poe, who always has a cough. Mr Poe takes them everywhere, from a lake with man-eating leeches to a lumbermill and a city infested with crows. However, all this is no use, because the notorious villain Count Olaf always manages to find them, each time with a cunning new plan to steal their inherited fortune.