Handler originally invented his pen name to infiltrate right-wing newsgroups, and refined Snicket into the narrator of the bestselling Series of Unfortunate Events, several picture books and a crisp encouragement to the Occupy movement ("People who say money doesn't matter are like people who say cake doesn't matter – it's probably because they've already had a few slices"). Snicket himself is a literary creation, the pseudonym of Daniel Handler, an accordion-playing San Franciscan who has also written several YA novels under his own name. Who Could That Be at This Hour? is a detective story about a town where even the taxi drivers don't demand money you can pay your fare by recommending a good book. "T hey say in every library there is a book that can answer the question that burns like a fire in the mind." So says the magnificently named Dashiell Qwerty, a sub-librarian in Lemony Snicket's delicious new novel his name, as much as his words, reminds us that we're reading a very bookish book, full of reverence for the power of literature.
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