| # |
Title |
Guardian & unofficial guardians (book 8+) |
Disguises - Olaf (2-8, 13)/Baudelaire(8-12) |
Characters introduced |
Deaths |
Type of Library |
Significant Events |
Lemony Snicket's letter referring to next book |
| 1 |
The Bad Beginning |
Count Olaf |
- |
Violet, Klaus, Sunny, Mr. Poe, Justice Strauss, Count Olaf's theatre troupe |
Mr. and Mrs. Baudelaire |
Law |
Series begins |
Typed on normal sheet of paper |
| 2 |
The Reptile Room |
Uncle Monty |
Stephano |
Bruce |
Gustav Sebald, Uncle Monty |
Herpetological |
Olaf's first definite murder |
Typed on normal sheet of paper |
| 3 |
The Wide Window |
Aunt Josephine |
Captain "Julio" Sham |
Waiter at The Anxious Clown |
Aunt Josephine |
Grammatical |
House falls into lake |
Typed on normal sheet of paper |
| 4 |
The Miserable Mill |
Sir and Charles |
Shirley T. Sinoit-Pécer |
Dr. Orwell, Phil |
Original Forman, Dr. Orwell |
Understocked |
Klaus is hypnotized multiple times |
Ripped sheet of paper |
| 5 |
The Austere Academy |
Prufrock Prep, specifically Vice Principal Nero |
Coach Genghis |
Vice Principal Nero, Carmelita Spats, Duncan and Isadora Quagmire, Mr. Remora, Mrs. Bass |
Miss Tench |
School |
Quagmires are kidnapped, first mention of V.F.D. |
Fancy piece of paper |
| 6 |
The Ersatz Elevator |
Jerome and Esmé Squalor |
Gunther |
- |
- |
Books on what's "in" |
Baudelaires discover tunnel |
Very wet sheet of paper |
| 7 |
The Vile Village |
Village of Fowl Devotees, specifically Hector |
Detective Dupin |
Hector, Jacques Snicket, Council of Elders |
Chief of Police, Jacques Snicket |
Rules, Hector's secret library |
Baudelaires framed for murder, Quagmires escape in balloon, first appearance of the Harpoon Gun |
Telegram |
| 8 |
The Hostile Hospital |
Hal |
Mattathias, Laura V. Bleediotie, Dr. Tocuna, Nurse Flo |
Hal |
Babs, The person of indeterminate gender |
Library of Records |
Baudelaires ponder their own morality, first appearance of the Snicket file |
Letter is almost destroyed, only a few scraps remain |
| 9 |
The Carnivorous Carnival |
Madame Lulu |
Beverly and Elliot the two-headed freak and Chabo the Wolf Baby |
Hugo, Colette, Kevin |
The Bald-Headed Man, Madame Lulu |
Archival |
Snicket file discovered & orphans learn location of V.F.D. headquarters |
Normal sheet of paper; letters fading away |
| 10 |
The Slippery Slope |
Bruce and the Snow Scouts |
Snow Scouts |
Quigley Quagmire, The Man With a Beard but No Hair and the Woman With Hair but No Beard |
- |
V.F.D. |
V.F.D. headquarters burned; Carmelita returns; sugar bowl first mentioned in dialogue; Sunny grows up; two powdered face women leave count olaf's troup |
Very wet sheet of paper; first time book name is hidden |
| 11 |
The Grim Grotto |
Captain Widdershins |
Scuba Divers |
Fiona, Kit Snicket |
- |
Mycological |
Olaf gets Medusoid Mycelium, Fernald's history revealed |
Several torn sheets of paper from Hotel Denouement; book name hidden again |
| 12 |
The Penultimate Peril |
Frank, Ernest, and Dewey Denouement |
Concierges |
Frank and Ernest Denouement |
Dewey Denouement, unknown number of V.F.D. members |
Hotel/Catalog |
Revealed that Count Olaf was orphaned when his parents were killed by poison darts; last safe place burned down; an uncertain number of regular characters are killed |
napkin; book name is mentioned - but unknown to the reader |
| 13 |
The End |
Ishmael, Islanders |
Olaf as Kit Snicket |
Friday, Ishmael, Islanders, Beatrice Baudelaire (Kit Snicket's child) |
Kit Snicket and Count Olaf |
Arboretum |
Kit Snicket gives birth to the second Beatrice; Kit Snicket and Count Olaf die; the series ends |
Letter to Editor on typewriter paper referring to Chapter Fourteen. |
