Book 11 of 13 in the A Series of Unfortunate Events
Author: Lemony Snicket
Genre: Fiction, Mystery
Format: Hardcover

Description:
The book begins immediately after the events of The Slippery Slope with the Baudelaires traveling on a collapsing toboggan down the stream of the Mortmain Mountains. The fire that they helped Count Olaf begin at Caligari Carnival is spreading through the hinterlands and the children have trouble avoiding it even on the stream. Just as hope seems lost they are caught on a submarine which rises from the waters. Climbing over to the hatch a voice within asks if the orphans are friends or foes. They declare that they are friends. The same voice asks for the password, and Violet guesses correctly the V.F.D. motto The world is quiet here. The children descend into the submarine which they discover is the Queequeg captained by Captain Widdershins a V.F.D. member and old friend of the Baudelaire parents. Also on board is Widdershins stepdaughter Fiona and the ships cook, Phil, the optimist who met the children while working at the Lucky Smells Lumbermill in Paltryville.