The third part of this 13 book series that tells the story of the Baudelaire siblings. Living with their - scared of everything - Aunt Josephine in a House high up on a hill looking over a giant Lake. A dead husband, a scared Aunt, a Hurricane Herman, a soggy library, a Mysterious Note, a lot of Leeches and a questionable Captain make the Baudelaires childhood into a sad and heartbreaking story.