The Ersatz Elevator

                                          Series of Unfortunate Events

                                                  The Ersatz Elevator

     The Baudelaire orphans are going to there next guardian which is Mr. and Mrs. squalor when they reached the place Mr. Poe dropped them off and when they walked in. They also had a huge way to go up they lived on the eighty-fourth floor and was also very very dark. there were no working elevators. When they reached the room Mr. Squalor (the owner) greeted them and said his name was jerome. His wife was Esme squalor who dresses very weirdly and didn't matter to her what she liked just about what was in of out. When they finally got to there room there were many bags of clothes from Esme and they were in clothes that were very uncomfortable and they were going to be wearing them for as long as they were with Esme. Esme mentioned that Gunther was going to be the auctioneer in the auction that only had in things in it. Jerome took them to a sea food restaurant at the docks and took them there very often. They all loved the place, when they came back to the apartments the door man with sleeves solong that his hands didn't show opened the door and met Gunther who was Count Olaf which Esme and Jerome denied it all and didn't believe them. They were so scared because they knew that something bad always happens to there guardian when Olaf comes. Very often Jerome took them to the sea cafe and they talked so much and the children started to like Jerome very much but not Esme, all she did was buy them uncomfortable ugly clothes. They would return to 667 Dark ave. On gloomy days they would go to the beach like they did at briny beach when they got the terrible news that there parents had died. The children constantly worried about there friends the Quagmire triplets and wondered where Olaf had taken them. They thought they could be near now that Olaf was there. The last words that they herd them say was them yell out V.F.D! They wondered what that meant. Even though the children were always so exhausted from climbing the stairs every time up and down they had so much to think about and couldn't sleep. The next day Klaus realized where the Quagmire triplets were, in the elevator shaft. That's why the elevators never worked and they didn't try to fix them. Violet instantly had the idea to tie many things together like extension cords, scarfs, ribbons, and ropes together. They wondered how far down it was so they threw the rope down and the rope was long enough so it made a clinking sound they started to climb down the shaft like a mountain climber would. When they reached the bottom they were scared it took more than 3 hours to get to the bottom. At the bottom was a cage that looked like it was hundreds of years old. To there surprise they saw Duncan and Isabella Quagmire trembling in it. The Quagmires couldn't believe it they thought that they were dreaming. When they realized it was really them they said that Olaf was planning on putting the Quagmires in an auction idem and sneaking them out of town. Olaf was waiting for them to become of age and then still there fortune and kill them. They couldn't get them out of the cage but were planning on getting the idem that they were going to be hidden in and save them. The Baudelaire's had to climb all the way back up the long rope and up the stairs. That night they guessed what idem they were in. Idem after idem they didn't think that they could fit in any of the things and then #14 was a enormous globe #25 was a rare piano and #48 was a huge statue of a scarlet fish. Then #50 came and it was a huge box with a stamp on it that said V.F.D they knew it was it. Then Esme talked to them before they got up the stairs and she said that Gunther is really Olaf in disguise and they said they knew that and that the Quagmires were in the elevator shaft. She said that she knew they were surprised. She was surprised that they had figured it out and she said that at the auction tomorrow that Gunther would be arrested and set the Quagmires free. Esme told the children to follow her and they did. They went to bed and when they woke up Esme didn't have any anxiousness in her face which was weird. They told her that they hated to walk down the stairs and pushed the non-working elevator button and it opened she pushed them all down the elevator shaft. They stopped falling and were not injured a net had caught them. Esme yelled down to them and said that she was Olaf's girlfriend and Jerome was just a hired man. They thought for hours and hours and Sunny said she would climb up with her teeth and she did. Sunny got the rope that they used before and they climbed down to the to where the Quagmires were and escaped. When they go to the auction and Mr. Poe was there, idem after idem they waited for #50 V.F.D. They asked Jerome to bid on it and he got it. The crate was full of doily. After the auction Olaf, Esme, and his theater troop escaped. with the huge scarlet fish statue which contained the Quagmires.

I like this book very much. When i was typing i made a lot of mistakes in it and had to erase a lot on took me very long. I was surprised how much there was. I think that there are many many thrilling mysteries in this book that i like this was one of my favorite books of the whole series.