A Series of Unfortunate Events #3: The Wide Window

A Series of Unfortunate Events #3: The Wide Window

by Lemony Snicket

4.6 (3,611)

4.6 stars from 3,611 reviews. Top 64% of Mystery Thriller books we track.


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Perfect for you if...

  • You enjoy dark humour and don't mind sad endings, especially when they're told with wit and sophistication.
  • You like mysteries where children have to use their brains and special skills to survive, not just luck.
  • You've watched the Netflix series and want to know how the books expand on the story with layers of wordplay and detail.

Maybe not for you if...

  • You want your middle-grade fiction to be cheerful and uplifting, with guaranteed happy outcomes.
  • You find the constant gloom and repeated failures of the Baudelaires tedious rather than darkly funny.
  • You prefer straightforward plots without narrative asides, authorial commentary, or cryptic messages to decode.

About this book

Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are kindhearted and quick-witted orphans whose lives are filled with bad luck and misery. In this tale of dark humor and woe, the three siblings must use their unique talents—Violet's invention skills, Klaus's research abilities, and Sunny's biting—to survive in a house perched on a cliff while under the care of a guardian afraid of nearly everything. Count Olaf returns as the villain, this time disguised as the charming, peg-legged Captain Sham, and successfully deceives their new guardian, Aunt Josephine. When Josephine vanishes and leaves behind a note filled with grammatical errors, Klaus must decode a secret message hidden within it to uncover the truth. The story involves a hurricane, deadly leeches, cold cucumber soup, a doll named Pretty Penny, and a desperate race across Lake Lachrymose. The siblings must work together to expose a terrible crime before it is too late.

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Currently on sale at $4.99 — 58% off peak. Price has dropped 12 times over the last 6 years. Goes on sale roughly every 194 days. Typically stays discounted for 39 days.

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#6,921#143,765#280,609Apr '18Jul '21Mar '23Jun '26

Currently around #62K in the Kindle store — a steady mid-list seller.

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Currently 4.6★ from 3,611 reviews

Gaining approximately 17 new reviews per month. Rating has dipped slightly from 4.7 to 4.6.

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