Who Could That Be at This Hour? - Lemony Snicket

"Who Could That Be at This Hour?" is part one of a fictional story surrounding the author, Lemony Snicket as a young teenager involved in an organisation of detective- like crime fighters.The story of the book takes place in the near Ghost- Town, Stain'd by the Sea and revolves around a mysterious small statue of a mythical sea creature called the Bombinating Beast. 
Because of a mysterious man called Hangfire who is hellbent on gaining the statue for unknown reasons, Lemony Snicket and his nonsensical chaperone, S. Theodora Markson are told that the statue was very valuable and stolen from the Sallis family by their neighbors, but later are told by the neighbors, the Mallahans, that it is just an old, worthless statue that was simply merchandise for the town's now closed newspaper. 

During the book, Lemony encounters a girl named Ellington Feint who tries to steal the statue for reasons unknown, many phone calls sent from a man who can perfectly imitate anyone's voice, and a police force comprised of a constantly arguing couple and their idiotic son. By the end of the book, it seems that all is going well, Snicket has the statue, and is about to return it to the Mallahans, when he finds that it has been replaced by a coffee bag of the same size, and that Ellington Feint was running away with the real statue.

This book reminds me of Lemony Snicket's other series, "A Series of Unfortunate Events" because it has a similar writing style (obviously) and it is also very mysterious as in you know very little of the villain and what he is capable of. In both series the villain occasionally shows himself, but more often than not has many people helping him. The main characters also share similarities, as they are all very resourceful and good at certain things. In "All The Wrong Questions", Lemony Snicket is very good at noticing very small details and  athletics, Moxie Mallahan is very good with talking and convincing people of things and the history of Stain'd by the sea, and Pip and Squeak both have a car and know how to drive (even though they're kids). In "A Series of Unfortunate Events", Violet is very inventive and resourceful and can make something out of nothing, Klaus is very smart and has photographic memory, and Sunny, well, has a very strong bite.

I think that this book is good for people who like mysteries. My summary doesn't really capture the feel of the book, as I did not want to make it too long. The book doesn't really give away much of what is going on, and it makes you want to keep reading. I hope that I haven't given away too much of the book's plot, because I would absolutely recommend it.