Young apprentice Lemony Snicket is investigating a case of arson but soon finds himself enveloped in the ever-increasing mystery that haunts the town of Stain’d-by-the-Sea.

Who is setting the fires? What secrets are hidden in the Department of Education? Why are so many school children in danger? Is it all the work of the notorious villain Hangfire? How could you even ask that? What kind of education have you had? Maybe you should be in school.

Before you think anything at all about Shouldn’t You Be In School? ask yourself these questions:

1. Do you smell smoke?

2. Are school children in danger?

3. There’s a witness to a notorious fire, but he appears to have gone missing. Also, these fish tanks are empty. And these books are blank.

4. Wait, those aren’t questions. What is going on?