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I'm going to call this feature "Smoke Cloud". It would be a very specific type of Red Haring.

I also believe that in TSS, Daniel Handler used a resource used by Agatha Christie in her books: disappointment about a prime suspect due to forged clues or coincidences, so that in the end Agatha would reveal to the reader that the prime suspect was really the murder. These tips were left in LSTUA and the Snicket File. (Similarly, we cannot rely on the Baudelaires' survival on the island, because Beatrice Jr may be mistaken about this).Īnd as I have previously published, Daniel Handler left tips that indicate that Beatrice may have survived the fire at her home, and that he decided that Beatrice survived at some point between the publication of TAA and TPP. Thus, we cannot fully rely on Lemony Snicket's claim in some books about Beatrice's death for the simple fact that Lemony may be mistaken about her death. Assuming this possibility, we are saying that Daniel Handler planned the existence of characters who are mistaken about facts in ASOUE. I have to admit that I really like this type of argument, because that is exactly what I say (now) about Beatrice's death. However, Dante showed me that there is another way to interpret this: the fact that Beatrice Jr may be mistaken.

For a long time, I argued that the only possible interpretation for what is written in TBL is that the Baudelaires survived long after leaving the island, as Beatrice claims that she remembers Sunny on a radio show.

The best known case of this is the question of whether the Baudelaires died shortly after leaving the island or not. Unfortunately, the tendency of some fans to accept the most obvious interpretation as the only possible interpretation has overshadowed the beauty of the work for many people. Beatrice Letters was precisely designed to present several possible interpretations.