This book is really good I loved it is about these 3 kids[bauledaire children] that use to be rich now aren't. because there parents died in a very bad fire in their manchine but the kids were at the beach. and then they go to their relatives house but the evil count olaf live there they have to live with him. then he gets arrested for forcing the oldest child to marry him to inherit the fortune the oldest child cant inherit the money yet because she has to wait until she is 21