The reptile room /
by Lemony Snicket ; illustrations by Brett Helquist.
- New York : HarperCollins, c1999.
- 190 p. ill. 19 cm.
- Series of unfortunate events ; bk. 2. .
After narrowly escaping the menacing clutches of the dastardly Count Olaf, the three Baudelaire orphans are taken in by a kindly herpetologist with whom they live happily for an all-too-brief time.