Series of Unfortunate Events: The Wide Window by Lemony Snicket

Book three in Series of Unfortunate Events. The Baudelaire orphans are forced to live with another relative. After living with two other distant family members, the Baudelaire's have been through a crazy maniac and a kind scientist with a fatal ending. The crazy, money greedy, actor is still after them. And he would do anything to get the fortune from some unsuspecting kids. The wits and other various skills that these children have learned are starting to add up, and their not quite as unsuspecting as they may appear. But what will  the kids do when their grammer loving caretaker leaves a suicide letter next t a now broken window? May the nasty Count Olaf have something to do with this? 

The Reptile Room by Lemony Snicket

The Reptile Room picks up the story of the Baudelaire children where The Bad Beginning ends. The rich orphans have just been relocated to a new caretaker, as they soon find out he is working with one of the most evil people in the world! Count Olaf. The new caretaker, is not evil. Nor does he have evil intentions. So why, does he work with horrible Count Olaf? Simply because he does not know any better. The kids try to warn the poor scientist, yet nothing works. will Count Olaf make away with the Baudelaire's fortune?

The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket

                                       

                                       "Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so"
                                                                         -The Bad Beginning

     When the Baudelaire orphans' house burns down all hope is lost, along with their parents. They are sent to live with Count Olaf. He is an actor, and his actions show it. This distant relative is obviously not fit to raise kids.
     Olaf discovers that he can legally obtain the Baudelaire fortune if he marries Violet, the oldest of the orphans. He creates a plan to trick an audience into watching a "play" where he marries Violet. Will the plan work? Can Count pull this off, or can these kids trick the ultimate master of decisis?