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The first book in Lemony Snicket´s new and super-exciting four-part series, now in paperback. In a fading town, far away from anyone he knew or trusted, a young Lemony Snicket began working for an organisation nobody knows about. He began asking questions that shouldn´t have been asked, and now he has written an account of his time there that shouldn´t be published, let alone read . . .

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Lemony Snicket ist das Pseudonym eines angesehenen amerikanischen Autors. Der ist in San Francisco geboren, wurde mit mehreren Literaturpreisen ausgezeichnet und lebt in New York.

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Lemony Snicket first received his education from public schools and private tutors, and then vice versa. One of the few recipients of a lifetime Bachelors Degree, he has been hailed as a brilliant scholar, discredited as a brilliant fraud, and mistaken for a much taller man on several occasions. His researching skills are currently and devoutly concentrated on the plight of the Baudelaire orphans.

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