Foxy's Complete Commonplace Book

[Foxy]

WHO COULD THAT BE AT THIS HOUR?



CHARACTERS:

Walleye (note before second title page): Who is this mysterious person Snicket is sending his manuscript?

Lemony Snicket (1)

People posing as Snicket’s parents (1): they were other chaperones, and I don’t think they were bad guys. They knew he shouldn’t got with S. Theodora Markson.

S. Theodora Markson (1)

Woman behind the counter at the Tearoom (1)

Man in the bathroom (1)

a friend of his who had just graduated (2): a girl who knew all about underwater life (Josephine?)

the butler (3)/ Hangfire (7)

Mrs. Murphy Sallis (3)

Mr. Mallahan (3)

Moxie Mallahan (3)

Prosper Lost (4)

Dashiell Qwerty (4): Sub-librarian

Dame Sally Murphy (4): name bears a remarkable similarity to Mrs. Murphy Sallis… yep, they’re the same person. (9)

Stew Mitchum (4): seems related to Carmelita Spats

Officer Harvey Mitchum (5)

Officer Mimi Mitchum (5)

Pecuchet Bellerophon (5) Pip or Squeak

Bouvrad Bellerophon (5) Squeak or Pip

Ellington Feint (7)

Dot Sallis (9): the real Mrs. Sallis

Dr. Flammarion (10): medical supplies were mailed to him at Black Cat Coffee

Hector (13): ☺ “I bet there’s not a single decent Mexican restaurant.

Monty (m) (13)

Haruki (m) (13)

Kit (m) (13)



RIGHT QUESTION:

Why would someone say something was stolen when it was never theirs to begin with?

A: She was hired by Hangfire



QUESTIONS FROM THE FLAP:

What happened to his parents?

Where is that screaming coming from? – Sally Murphy in the basement

Is it too late?



REFERENCES (real and made up):

Johnny Tremain (3)

Stain’d Myths (4)

a story written by a British man with a funny name about interlopers (5)

a book about a champion of the world by the author with all the chocolate (5)

Little House in the Big Woods? (6)

a book about someone who is a true friend and a good writer on a bloodthirsty farm (8)

The Long Secret (8)

the one about the tap dancer and the lawyer (8)

An Analysis of Brown, Black, and Beige (10)

The Wind in the Willows (11)

The Lord of the Rings (12)



SNICKET DICTIONARY:

Bombinating: buzzing (4)

Chutzpah: Show-offy courage (8)

Interesting: It made me nervous (6)

Obsequios: people who behave like one’s servants but are not (5)

Ransacked: something that is fun to do to someone else’s room but no fun to have done to yours (11)

Restorative: activities that clear the brain and make the heart happy (5)

Roadster: Car (1)

Shut eye: sleep (8)

You may be right: I’m wrong, but I don’t have the courage to say so. (12)



GEOGRAPHY:

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Hemlock Tearoom and Stationary Shop (1)

Museum of Bad Breakfast (1)

Bellamy Station (1)

Stain’d-by-the-Sea (2)

Bellamy Books (2)

Clusterous Forest (2)

Stain’d Lighthouse (3)

The Lost Arms (4): Far East Suite (least expensive room, located on second floor)

Hungry’s (4): Restaurant

Old City Hall, now the Police Station/Library (4)

Fourier Branch (4): a library near the Fountain of Victorious Finance

Hinterlands (5)

Grocery Store (5)

Department Store (5)

Offshore island (6)

Wade Academy (6)

Handkerchief Heights (7)

Black Cat Coffee (7): corner of Caravan and Parfait

Killdeer Fields (7)

Stain’d Playhouse (8)

Thirteen Hundred Blotted Boulevard (11)



FOODOLOGY:

Eggs (1)

Tea (1)

Almond Cookies (3)

peanuts (4)

Root beer float (5)

basil, garlic, lemon, walnuts, parmesan (or asiago), pasta, olive oil (6)

cranberry juice (6)

Coffee (7)

Doughnuts (8)



S:

Stop asking the wrong questions (1)

Someplace else (2)

Standing next to me is my apprentice (3)

Silly boy (4)

(rude gesture) (6)

[Foxy]

WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE HER?



CHARACTERS:

Pocket (note before the second title page)

Lemony Snicket (1)

S. Theodora Markson (1)

Prosper Lost (1)

Ellington Feint (1)

Kit Snicket (1): he is on the phone with her!

Hangfire (1)

Jacques (m) (1)

previous apprentice (1) (m): Who was this person?

Miss Cleo Knight (1)

Zada (2)

Zora (2): Are Zada and Zora the two women with white powder all over their faces?

Mr. Ignatius Knight (2)

Mrs. Doretta Knight (2)

Dr. Flammarion (2)

Ingrid Nummet Knight (2): Cleo’s grandmother, founder of Ink Inc.

nurse with a sharp knife (2)

Polly Partial (3): owner of partial foods

Hungry Hix (3): owner of Hungry’s

Jake Hix (3): Hungry’s nephew

Bouvard Bellerophon (3) Pip?

Pecuchet Bellerophon (3) Squeak?

their father (3) (m): he’s always sick

Moxie Mallahan (3)

Colonel Colophon (4) (m): Ingrid’ business partner; injured in an unveiling of a statue in his honor; there was an explosion, and now he lives in the clinic: he does not live in the clinic anymore – he was thrown out the window. (11)

Stew Mitchum (m) (4): he is actually quite dangerous (9)

Harvey Mitchum (5)

Mimi Mitchum (5)

Dashiell Qwerty (6)

Snicket’s parents (m) (6): they sound like fierce and formidable people

Moxie’s mother (m) (6)

a mysterious woman (6): Nurse Dander (7)

Dame Sally Murphy (m) (8)

Murphy Sallis (m) (8)

Armstrong Feint (m) (8): likes wine. Also Hangfire likes wine. Are they the same person? (11)

one of his friends who captured her first bat (12)



RIGHT QUESTION:

How could someone who was missing be in two places at once? (1)

Why was she wearing an article of clothing she did not own? (2)

How can a town find out what’s going on if nobody’s there to report it? (5)



QUESTIONS FROM THE FLAP:

Did you get the message?

Who has the formula?

What’s for breakfast? Schoenberg Cereal/cinnamon rolls



REFERENCES (real and made up):

book where a guy named Johnny takes a train and goes to Constantinople in 1453 (3)

a book about a lighthouse (3)

a book about a girl named Amanda, who is either a witch or a step-sister or both (4)

Despair (6)

Chemistry (6)

a book about a girl who spies on her neighbors (6)

a book about creepy notes that ruin a family’s summer (6)

a book about a family that doesn’t change even though the children want it to (6)

an author from Sweden (7): wrote a book about a girl with long braids who has adventures with her neighbors

the big fight over an apple and a pretty woman (9)

a book about Kit and Nathaniel (10)

the book about the girl who goes to live with the Reeds (12)

Widdershins (13)

Gustav (m) (13): he is on the submarine with Widdershins



SNICKET DICTIONARY:

a fifth wheel: someone who is of no help at all (3)

asinine: not very smart (7)

defenestration: throwing someone out a window (11)

eternal enemies : moths (6)

flinch: the usual reaction people have to a loud noise or unfortunate event (12)

his ear to the ground: his ear to our conversation (13)

impertinent: not suitable to the circumstances (3)

indulging: doing something that is not really necessary (6)

intimidating: it was supposed to scare me (5)

no reality has the power to dispel a dream: no matter what happens in the world, you can keep thinking about something, particularly if it’s something you like (13)

provoke: to irritate someone so much that they might not notice what’s going on around them (7)

the triumph of hope over experience: it’s never going to happen (2)



GEOGRAPHY:

Lost Arms (1)

Stain’d-by-the-Sea (1)

Hungry’s (1)

Clusterous Forest (1)

Ink Inc. (2)

Partial Foods (1)

Black Cat Coffee (1)

Colophon Clinic (2)

Handkerchief heights (3)

the lighthouse (3)

City Hall (5)

Library (5)

Museum of Items (m) (6): place Kit is going to rob

Wade Academy (6)

Offshore Island (6)

Diceys Department Store (7)

Les Gommes (7)

“UARIU” (7): aquarium

Killdeer Fields (8)

Corner of Caravan and Parfait (8)



FOODOLOGY:

fried egg served on a towel (1)

apple (1)

cinnamon roll (2)

Schoenberg Cereal (2)

honey dew melons (3)

canned smelt (3)

coffee (4)

pineapple (4)

bread (9)

gashouse eggs (10)



S:

Silence! (2)

Such a tone! (13)

[Foxy]

File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents



INSIDE JOB/BLACK PAINT/DEEP MINE:

CHARACTERS:

Lemony Snicket

S. Theodora Markson

Prosper Lost

Marguerite Gracq

Marguerite’s father

Dagmar

Finnish poets in paintings: Henry Parkland, Peavo Cajander, Katri Vala, Eino Leino, Otto Manninen, Larin Paraske

Maguerite’s mother (m)



SNICKET DICTIONARY:

Sensible: the tone you are supposed to use instead

Snide: the kind of tone you use in an argument



GEOGRAPHY:

Lost Arms



FOODOLGY:

Burned bread

Fluffy poached egg



S:

Snide answers aren’t appropriate.






PINCHED CREATURE/DISHONEST SALESMAN/BACKSEAT



CHARACTERS:

Moxie Mallahan

Mrs. Mallahan

Mr. Mallahan

Oliver Sobol

Doctors Sobol

Polly Partial

Salesman



SNICKET DICTIONARY:

In a pinch: in a difficult situation

Inane: pointless and dull



GEOGRAPHY:

Partial Foods



FOODOLOGY:

Rootbeer






RANSOM NOTE/LOUD DOG/QUIET STREET



CHARACTERS:

Lemony Snicket

Bouvard and Pecuchet Bellerophon (Pip & Squeak)

Pip & Squeak’s father

Jackie

Jackie’s grandfather

Cleo Knight

Lysistrata (dog)

Hal Hairdryer

Hal Hairdryer’s brother

S. Theodora Markson

Prosper Lost

Hangfire



VFD:

Violetta Frogg-Drifter



SNICKET DICTIONARY:

Joyride: driving around just for fun



GEOGRAPHY:

Stain’d-by-the-Sea

Moray Wheels

Bowling Alley

Mortmain Mountains (m)

Dugga Drills

1300 Blotted Boulevard

Hairdryer Emporium

Hairdryer’s Salamies



FOODOLOGY:

Molasses



WALKIE TALKIE/THROUGH THE WINDOW/BENEATH THE STREET



CHARACTERS:

Lemony Snicket

Jake Hix

Unemployed gondolier

Lean man in a green suit and a hat with a feather on it - Leroy

Stew Mitchum

Cops (Stew’ parents)

George (winds up not being real)



REFERENCES:

Book about the clever kid in Utah



SNICKET SECRETS:

He once was required to have a radio in his shoe.



GEOGRAPHY:

Hungry’s

Clusterous Forest



FOODOLOGY:

Spaghetti

Spinach

Cheese

Onion

Fried egg

Good crisp apple

Salt

Chocolate muffins

Steak Frites

Melon rind someone had tossed into the gutter






BAD GANG/HOMEMADE FURNITURE/SMALL COURTYARD



CHARACTERS:

Lemony Snicket

S. Theodora Markson

STM’s sister

Harvey and Mim Mitchum

Big Bad Brick Gang

Bob Old

Kevin

Moxie Mallahan

Moxie’s father

Jake Hix

Stew

Muriel Distinguished

Belerophon brothers, Pip & Squeak

Delphinium Smith

Florence

Violetta

Dagwood



REFERENCES:

Edgar Allen Poe – The Telltale Heart

Book about a dead bird changing a girl’s mind about her mother’s suitor, and she went back

Book with Peter escaping from Barbados and deciding to become a buccaneer



SNICKET DICTIONARY:

Confidentially: please don’t tell anyone



GEOGRAPHY:

Lost Arms

The town’s first business district

Boards

Hungry’s

Swords

Cords

Gourds

Fjords (closed down)

Chrysanthemums



FOODOLOGY:

Frittata



S:

See you Sunday!




SILVER SPOON/TWENTY-FIVE GUESTS/MISSING PETS



CHARACTERS:

Lemony Snicket

Dashiell Qwerty

Visitors, readers: mostly men, at least two were women

Randall (Ashbery, dog)

Bearded man

Armdale

Smogface Wiley – Sir???

Butler (Hangfire)

Numerous other servants

Servant at Wiley’s

Mr. Samsa

Dr. Auchincloss

Madame Blavatsky

Mrs. Flammarion



REFERENCES:

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The one about the woman who falls asleep and kills a horse

The one where a bookcase falls on someone



SNICKET DICTIONARY:

Askew: crooked, and should be repaired

Shady: giving shade, ever so slightly sinister

Well-bred: a word which doesn’t mean anything at all, but which some people use to make themselves feel better than others



GEOGRAPHY:

A small camp on the outskirts of town

Dicey’s Department Store

Hardware store (closed down)

Blotted Boulevard

Nib Court

Sallis Mansion

Far East Suite



FOODOLOGY:

Soup

Canned peaches

Mushrooms

Fried egg

Roasted potatoes

Cereal

Blueberry muffin

Fresh peach




VIOLENT BUTCHER/SMALL SOUND/LARGE MEAL



CHARACTERS:

Lemony Snicket

Ellington Feint

Mack: Large man sitting on a curb, butcher

Drumstick



REFERENCES:

Read Meat (Magazine)

Movie where something important was hidden in a piano and people were singing in French



SNICKET DICTIONARY:

Preternaturally: extra



GEOGRAPHY:

Black Cat Coffee

Stain’d-by-the-Sea

Corner of Caravan and Parfait

Patrial Foods



FOODOLOGY:

Coffee

Venison

Bread

Game hen

Rack of lamb

Veal chops

Bone marrow






TWELVE OR THIRTEEN/CHALKED NAME/OTHER NAME



CHARACTERS:

Lemony Snicket

Moxie Mallahan

Moxie’s mother

Gary Dorian – Dorian Gray reference?

Chase B. Willow

The Mitchums

The Officers Durham

Mrs. Willow

Lawn mower technician

Mr. Mallahan

Sledders:

Mrs. Williams (nee Herman)

Dr. Carlos

Mr Williams

Mr. Willow

Mrs. Summerover

Dr. River

Mr. Noleaf

Dr. Bitten

Mr. Crimson

Mrs. Cling

Mr. Paler

Mr. Loth



REFERENCES:

The Stain’d Lighthouse



SNICKET DICTIONARY:

Maintained his innocence: said he didn’t do it



GEOGRAPHY:

Stain’d-by-the-Sea

Former City Hall

Library

Police station

Homily Hill

Ink Inc.

Distillery



FOODOLOGY:

Hot cider

Limeade

The Salty Mess






MIDNIGHT DEMON/ PANICKED FEET/SAND AND SHORE



CHARACTERS:

Lemony Snicket

Thomasina Cozy

Tatiana

Treacle

Baron von Pendle

Tabitha (dog)



References:

A book with Santa Claus



Snicket Dictionary:

A shadow of its former self: not as good as it used to be

Reasonable: not a demon



GEOGRAPHY:

Cozy’s: Rocking Chair store

Gobi Pier



FOODOLOGY:

Oatmeal






THREE SUSPECTS/VERY OBVIOUS/POOR JOKE



CHARACTERS:

Lemony Snicket

Officers Mitchum: Harvey and Mimi

Polly Partial

Three men with scraggly beards



REFERENCES:

I think the Mitchums watched ”Zombies in the Snow” and another Sebald movie. Maybe ”Ants in the Fruit Salad”?

Alain-Fournier

Harry Carney



GEOGRAPHY:

Library

Police station

Partial Foods

Devotee Symphony

French horn factory



FOODOLOGY:

Root beer float

Blueberry pies






VANISHED MESSAGE/MESSAGE RECEIVED/MESSAGE RECORDED



CHARACTERS:

Lemony Snicket

S. Theodora Markson

Blotto the Octopus

Lois Dressing

Pharmacist

Jake Hix

Dashiell Qwerty

The Yamgraz



V.F.D.:

Very Fancy Doily (Qwerty found it left in a book)



REFERENCES:

A book with a virus on it/oyster shell



Snicket Dictionary:

Continental breakfast: plenty of pastries and cereal, along with juice and coffee or tea

Flyblown: squalid

Put out: troubled

Squalid: I wanted to leave immediately



GEOGRAPHY:

Far East Suite

Lost Arms

Swinster Pharmacy (I read that book, and I did not like it or understand it.)

Stain’d Station

Flounder Ponds

Hungry’s

Yamgraz Drive



FOODOLOGY:

Continental breakfast – Schoenberg cereal

Milk

Tangerine soda

Sabdwiches




TROUBLESOME GHOST/TRAIN WRECK/NERVOUS WRECK



CHARACTERS:

Lemony Snicket

S. Theodora Markson

Prosper Lost

Jake Hix

Worried-looking man: Hans Mann

Old Lady Mann

Sally Murphy

Billy Becker

Mann’s sister, who joined the air force



REFERENCES:

Shiver Me Timbers

Mother of Icarus

Look Out for that Train Wreck

The Man Who Looked Somewhat Like Winston Churchill



GEOGRAPHY:

Far East Suite

Lost Arms

Stain’d-by-the-Sea

Hungry’s

Stain’d Playhouse

Stpalegun factory

Anchovy District



FOODOLOGY:

Banana Waffles

Tea

Real whipped cream

Maple Syrup




FIGURE IN THE FOG/SHOUTED WORD/LAST WORD



CHARACTERS:

LEMONY SNICKET

Dashiell Qwerrty

Shadowy figure

Big bad brick gang

Hans

Doctors Sobol

Oliver

The guy who ate steak frites

Mr. And Mrs. Willow

Marguerite and her mother

Jackie

Jackie’s grandfather

the Mitchums

The three brothers who made the french horns

Randall and the drifters

Lois Dressing

the Yamgraz

The rocking chair twins

Ellington Feint

Hangfire



REFERNECES:

A book about a man who attacked a littlre girl, and then felt bad about it and offered her family a huge sum of money he’d stolen from a famous scientist



SNICKET DICTIONARY:

without rhyme or reason: every which way



GEOGRAPHY:

Stain’d-by-the-Sea

Library

Ink, Inc.

Offshore Island

Lost Arms

Hungry’s

Stationary store

Sobol office

Homily HIll

Moray Wheels

Abandoned band shell

French horn factory

the police station

Swinster Pharmacy

Cozy’s

Black Cat Coffee



FOODOLOGY:

Root beer floats

[Foxy]

SHOULDN’T YOU BE IN SCHOOL?



CHARACTERS:

Eratosthemes (page before the second title page)

Lemony Snicket (1)

Hangfire (1)

Dashiell Qwerty (1): Snicket thinks a more appropriate name for him would be Wildhairy Oddjacket

Ellington Feint (1): Filene N. Gottlin (8)

Moxie Mallahan (1)

Moxie’s mother (m) (1)

Porter Roeman (1)

S. Theodora Markson (1)

STM’s former apprentice (2)

Man asking for fire for his cigarette (2): Hangfire?

Kellar Haines: A boy Snicket’s age at the “DoE” (2)

Sharon Haines (2): Kellar’s mother

Harold Limetta (2)

Harvey Mitchum (3)

Mimi Mitchum (3)

Stewart Mitchum (3)

Jake Hix (3)

Hungry Hix (3)

Cleo Knight (3)

Prosper Lost (5): maybe not a bad guy after all

Talkie Brothers (5): Official Fire Department

Ornette Lost (5): Proper’s daughter; lives with her uncles – the fire fighters?

Armstrong Feint (5)

Bouvard Bellerophon (6)

Pecuchet Bellerophon (6)

Zada (6)

Zora (6)

Mr. Bellerophon (7): He’s still very ill.

Man from Calcutta (7): Hungry’s ex-husband

Dr. Flammarion (8)

Snicket’s sneaking instructor (9)

Lizzie Haines (9)

Sally Murphy (9)

Edward (m) (9): one of Snicket’s associates

Polly Partial (11)

Bertrand (12)

Q (m) (12)

Olaf (m) (12) !!! went to Wade academy?

Josephine (13): flies a helicopter

Gifford & Ghede (13): the two people who were with Snicket at the beginning of the first book – they are not helpful volunteers



RIGHT QUESTION:

Why would someone destroy one building when they really wanted to destroy another? (1)

What did they do with the rest of the equipment from the Roe House? (6)



QUESTIONS FROM THE FLAP:

What are they teaching their students?

Where did she hide it?

Does anyone else feel sleepy?



REFERENCES (real and made up):

Caviar: Salty Jewel of the Tasty Sea (1)

Italian Dictionaries (1)

a book about Jody and a pony who got sick (2)

a book about a sad young man who finds a tiny strange man with a sack of magical crystals (3)

a book about two friends, and one tricks the other and he falls out of a tree and breaks his leg (3)

The Children’s Hour (3)

Sophocles (5)

The Goncourt Journals (6)

Contrasts for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano (6) by Bela Bartók

The Wind in the Willows

Old Yeller

a book about a dark, stormy night, a scientist who disappears, an intelligent boy, a haunted house, a woman with a crystal ball, a black cloud, and a brain (7)

a bunny who disobeys his mother and eats vegetables out of a man’s garden, loses his jacket and shoes, drinks tea, knows a hedgehog, etc. (7)

Belgian detective in the funny hat (11)

book about two people who decide to trade wicked deeds (12)



SNICKET DICTIONARY:

cast a pall over the town: made things shadowy and quiet (6)

Exacerbate: make worse (11)

In a manner of speaking: no (10)

Inane: my brother and I would pretend we couldn’t hear each other very well while we were talking (11)

ingenius: very clever (4)

jalopy: an automobile that looks like it could fall apart if you touched it (5)

large campus: there was a tall, wide building that curved slightly like a seashell with a group of small buildings in its shadow (1)

Looking daggers at me: giving me nasty looks (11)

Paraphrased: more or less stolen from another one of my associates (9)

prestigious: important or having great influence (2)

Revulsion: a vivid and violent dislike (12)

set up shop: turn an empty hospital into a place where many children could be kept prisoner for some sinister purpose (1)

shucked: to take the part you can eat out of the shell (6)

Skeptical: she didn’t believe me (13)

slatternly: untidy and unprofessional (5)

the skinny: the secret information (4)

unnerved: I didn’t want to look at them (6)



GEOGRAPHY:

the library (1)

Colophon Clinic (1)

Stain’d-by-the-Sea (1)

Stain’d Secondary (1)

the Mallahan Lighthouse (1)

Black Cat Coffee (1)

Corner of Caravan and Parfait (1)

Roe House (1)

Clusterous Forest (1)

350 Wayward Way (1): now the Department of Education, formerly the Roe House (2)

Diceys Department Store (2)

Birnbaum’s Sheep Barn (2): burned down

421 Ballpoint Avenue (2)

The Lost Arms (2)

Hungry’s (3)

Wade Academy (4)

Offshore Island (7)

The Hemlock Tearoom and Stationary Shop (7)

Partial Foods (11)

Handkerchief Heights (13)



FOODOLOGY:

Coffee (1)

Peppermint Ice Cream (2)

homemade bread (3)

Reuben sandwhich (3)

tomato-watermelon gazpacho (3)

habanero pepper jam (3)

limeade (4)

buttermilk (4)

Hangtown fry (6)

Tandoori Chicken with Vegetables (6)

doughtnuts (11)

grapes that turned into raisins because no one bought them (11)

omelet (11)

prunes (11) (I love prunes)

honey dew melons (11)

Porcini mushroom (12)

Farro risotto (12)

Artichoke lemon soup (13)

Brook trout, grape leaves, olives, and rosemary (13)

Blueberry cobbler (13)

Homemade hazelnut ice cream (13)

Peppermint tea (13)



S:

Smart (2)

Slide in, Snicket (2)

[Foxy]

WHY IS THIS NIGHT DIFFERENT FROM ALL OTHER NIGHTS?



CHARACTERS:

B. & P. Bellerophon (message on the page before the second title page

Ghede (first picture)

Gifford (first picture): These two people seem sinister.

Kit Snicket

Lemony Snicket (1)

S. Theodora Markson (1)

Hangfire (1)

Dashiell Qwerty (1)

Ellington Feint (1)

Prosper Lost (1)

Ornette Lost (1)

Talkie brothers (1)

Alice Lost (1): Prosper’s wife, died in a fire

Jake Hix (2)

Cleo Knight (2)

Harvey Mitchum (2)

Mimi Mitchum (2)

Polly Partial (2): now works at the train station selling tickets instead of at the grocery store

Sharon Haines (2)

Lizzie Haines (2)

Kellar Haines (2)

Sally Murphy (2)

the porter (2): Liizie Haines

Moxie Mallahan (3)

Moxie’s father (3)

Moxie’s mother (4)

Stew Mitchum (5)

The 3 people from the three previous books to whom he sent his files!:

Walleye: he is bald(6)

Pocket: a woman who said she saw STM shoot Qwerty with a poison dart (6)

Eratosthenes: had a beard that went out in two directions, and he is old (6)

Ellington’s father (8)

Dr. Flammarion (9)

Nurse Dander (9)

The Duchess of Winnipeg (10)

Hector (13): surveying an icy mountain lake

Widdershins (13): in a submarine deep underwater

Josephine (13): delivering a message to Monty

Monty (13)

Beatrice (13): going with Olaf to a strange forest; WHAT???

Olaf (13)



RIGHT QUESTION:

Is it more beastly to be a murderer or to let one go free? (1)

Where had the train been before it stopped at Stin’d-by-the-Sea? (3)



QUESTIONS FROM THE FLAP:

Why are the snacks so terrible?

Why are we stopping?

What’s the rest of the story?



REFERENCES (real and made up):

Metamorphosis (1)

Corduroy (1)

To Kill a Mockingbird (2)

The Turn of the Screw (2)

Giacomo Casanova (3)

Marcel Duchamp (3)

Beverly Cleary (3)

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (5)

Eleanor Estes (7)

(Lois) Lowry (7)

Snyder (7)

(Roald) Dahl (7)

(Maurice) Sendak) (7)

Konigsburg (7)

(Marc?) Brown (7)

Gorey (7)

Grimm (7)

story of a wizard ordering a beast around as long as it was well-fed (12)



SNICKET DICTIONARY:

Ad hoc: we were all alone and making it up as we went along (1)

Anticlimactic: nowhere near as exciting (3)

Anything and everything: a number of terrible crimes (1)

Anxious unison: they did it at the same time and with the same sickly look (6)

Axis: a line that goes down the middle of something (8)

Canvas the neighborhood: ask questions of everyone nearby (4)

Cowered: we closed our eyes and shook and clung to whatever we could with trembling hands (12)

Disquieting sight: it made me uneasy and silent (11)

Glyptotheca: a place where sculpture is displayed (1)

Malevolence: the sort of evil that is dark and shiny (6)

Misguided: it wasn’t going to work (2)

Nefarious: wicked, and involving stolen honeydew melons and certain equipment from an abandoned aquarium (1)

No dice: that is not going to happen (7)

Perilous: dangerous (7)

Prominent individuals: heroes or villains (12)

Provided discreet transportation: they drove the only taxi left in Stain’d-by-the-Sea whenever their father was sick or couldn’t do it for some other reason, which was almost all the time and always (2)

Pulse: the throb of blood as it moves through someone’s veins (9)

Quagmire: heap of trouble (7)

Railroaded: framed for a crime (6)

Rendezvous: meet (10)

Ridiculously: the man stepped through the door and closed it behind him, catching the woman’s fingers, and she shrieked and the door opened again and she stepped though after him and the door shut again and at last they were gone (4)

Rueful: not smiley (11)

Rushed to judgment: thought of her as a murderer (4)

Simultaneously: they tried to walk through the door at the same tiem and got tangled up (4)

Solitude: being all by yourself (13)

Stowaway: a person hiding on a ship, so they can travel without paying (3)

Took it as well as he could: he looked sad and defeated (7)



GEOGRAPHY:

Lost Arms (1)

Stain’d-by-the-Sea (1)

Wade Academy (1)

Offshore Island (1)

Clusterous Forest (1)

Diceys Department Store (1)

Hungry’s (2)

Partial Foods (2)

Black Cat Coffee (2)

Stain’d Station (2)

Hemlock Tearoom and Stationary Shop (4)

Colophon Clinic (9)

Winnipeg (10)



FOODOLOGY:

honeydew melons (1)

poppy seed bagels (4)

almond pound cake (4)

verbena tea (4)

root beer floats (4)

gingerbread (4)

tomato salad (4)

Highsmith sandwich: roasted peppers, apricots, walnuts, Stilton cheese, and lettuce (endive or escarole) (4)

blueberries (7)

apple (7)



S:

Stop asking (1)

Surely there’s an explanation for this. (13)

[Dante]

Thank you for posting your complete Commonplace Book, Foxy; I'll respond to your ?4 findings when I come to post the reread thread for that volume.