The reptile room /
by Lemony Snicket ; illustrations by Brett Helquist.
- First Scholastic printing, October 2000
- New York : Scholastic, 1999
- 190 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- A series of unfortunate events ; Book 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.