The Prestigious Prisoner

Dear Reader,

If you are interested in a happy story about a noble volunteer escaping from his captors and finally sending a notorious Count to prison, then I'm afraid you have made a wrong turn and will need to go back as soon as possible to avoid any further inconvenience.

With my newly uncovered research, I have managed to piece together a new section of the Baudelaire case--though it doesn't have anything to do with the three children themselves, it has everything to do with the man who cast an enormous, fire-starting shadow over their lives, and the unfortunate capture of a prestigious volunteer.

This takes place in the middle of book the seventh, The Vile Village. If I were you, however, I would avoid reading that book, and the books before it, and the books after it, effectively saving myself from thirteen volumes of utter despair.

With all due respect,

Lemony Snicket.