Captain Sham

[Dionysus]

Hey Volunteers,


I have a question that has been bugging me for some time. I’ve seen that Count Olaf’s disguise in The Wide Window ‘Captain Sham’ often referred to as ‘Captain Julio Sham’.


I’m wondering – where are people getting ‘Julio’ from? I’m guessing it must be somewhere in the Unauthorized Autobiography – but I am unable to find it.

[Dionysus]

Thank you, Quisby. Not too sure how I managed to miss that - but I did.

[Hermes]

An interesting question is when DH began thinking of the letters 'JS' as significant. In the early books we meet not only Justice Strauss and Jerome Squalor, but also Julio Sham. Presumably this wasn't part of a plan when it first happened. Did he perhaps note the coincidence, and then create Jacques Snicket? Or did he notice the (even bigger) coincidence only after Jacques had been created?

[vfds321s]

Julio is from The Wide Window. That's what Captain Sham tells Aunt Josephine to call him by, likely the first name.