13 Shocking Secrets You'll Wish You Never Knew About Lemony Snicket is a promotional pamphlet containing thirteen "secrets" about Lemony Snicket; the final secret is found by decoding a puzzle. It was distributed through the HarperCollins AuthorTracker mailing list and on the Lemony Snicket website in promotion ofThe End.[5] The day after the pamphlet was published, HarperCollins issued a press release revealing that Lemony Snicket had finished writing The End, the final book in the series.[6] The final secret is also echoed towards the end of the Dear Reader letter for The End.[7]
The 13 Secrets Of Lemony Snicket
- Lemony Snicket is not who you think he is.
- This may be referencing that Snicket is actually a character in the series; that he is guilty of some of the crimes for which he has been convicted; or simply that he is a pseudonym of Daniel Handler.
- Lemony Snicket is one of three siblings.
- Snicket is the youngest of three alphabetically named children: Jacques Snicket, Kit Snicket, and Lemony Snicket.
- Lemony Snicket's niece is an orphan.
- Beatrice Baudelaire is the daughter of Dewey Denouement and Kit Snicket; at the time of the pamphlet's publication, Kit was still alive in the series.
- Lemony Snicket is wanted for arson.
- The Baudelaires' parents, Bertrand and Beatrice Baudelaire, were killed in an arsonous house fire, as were Mr. and Mrs. Quagmire and Snicket's own parents.
- Lemony Snicket grew up with a terrible villain.
- Snicket attended V.F.D. training with Count Olaf.
- Lemony Snicket did not attended boarding school.
- Snicket's V.F.D. training entailed being taken away from his parents and raised my house.
- When he was a baby, Lemony Snicket was kidnapped by a secret organization.
- V.F.D. took Snicket and his siblings into training while they were young.
- Lemony Snicket was fired from The Daily Punctilio.
- Snicket tried to expose Count Olaf and Esmé Squalor's attempts to embezzle audiences and kidnap Beatrice through a theater review column, but was stopped by Geraldine Julienne.
- Lemony Snicket helped Beatrice commit a serious crime before her death.
- Snicket, Beatrice, and Bertrand probably murdered Count Olaf's parents.
- Lemony Snicket was disguised as a bull fighter [sic] when he was captured.
- Lemony Snicket attended the Duchess of Winnipeg's masquerade in a bullfighter costume.
- Lemony Snicket's work is filled with secret messages meant for his associates.
- In several books Snicket openly communicates with other members of V.F.D., such as his sister Kit.
- Lemony Snicket has a tattoo of an eye on his ankle.
- All adult members of V.F.D. are branded with this eye, including Count Olaf, Jacques Snicket, Kit Snicket, Bertrand and Beatrice Baudelaire, Esmé Squalor, Monty Montgomery, and Josephine Anwhistle.
- He is finished.
- The End contains the death of Count Olaf, the birth of Beatrice Baudelaire, and the resolution to the Baudelaires' helplessness, so it is no longer Snicket's duty to chronicle the events.