Characters
Violet, Klaus, Sunny and Count Olaf return in this book, as in all previous books. The book also features Esme Squalor, the hook-handed man, the bald man with the long nose and the two white-faced women. Hal and Geraldine Julienne make their debuts in this book, Milt, Lou and the Volunteers Fighting Disease make their only appearance, and the person who looks like neither a man nor a woman makes his or her final appearance in this book.
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