The Reptile Room, by Lemony Snicket, is 190 pages and the second book in The Series of Unfortunate events.After Count Olaf escaped the clutches of the authorities, the Baudelaire orphan lived with their uncle Montgomery.This time in order to steal the Baudelaire`s fortune, Olaf murders Montgomery`s assistant and takes his place with a disguise to fool him. The orphans seeing through his ruse, tell Monty but with no results. Soon Monty is murdered and Olaf hatches a plan to take the orphans to Peru and raise violet until she can inherit the fortune and give it to Count Olaf.