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OH MY GOSH! I just came up with something!! Look at the I, the hairpin I or is it? It looks like a L with the shadow!! So I put LSTC, L for the fake I, S for the paper weight, T for the item Beatrice used and C for her lock of hair and we get
LSTC

LEMONY SNICKET THE TRUE COUNT!?

Whoa, dude. Just thing, another isn't weird these two Beatrices on the cover, maybe one is their mother, aunt, grandmother and the other, the sibling, or granddaughter. You can be named after someone. Just some of my thoughts. I'm kind of excited so my typings a bit off.


EDIT: Some of what I say the last post says, my page wasn't refreshed sorry.

Edit on the Braile it's just his name False Alarm!!

Salut Rurouni! (I was away working in relative isolation in BC this summer, so that's the explaination for the innactivity).

In respect to the anagrams for the punch-out letters, I put my money on 'Beatrice Sank'. If you look at the poster included with the book, the lettering on the debris suggests that the ship's name was 'Beatrice'. Therefore the ship, Beatrice, sank. This probably is a foreshadow as to the major plotline of 'The End'.

On another note, I think we can now rule out the theory that the siblings will die at the end of the series (I was always against this theory, but I think now we have more substantial proof). Clearly the Baudelaires live long enough to reflect upon their ordeal to Beatrice. Also, it seems that, by the time they have spoken with Beatrice, Sunny is fluent enough in English to be on a radio show. If we assume Sunny is two or three years old, I would say the radio show took place at least four years after the events in the book. So I think we can be sure that the Baudelaires live at least four years after 'The End'.

Wow, thanks for the sticky! surprised Any new theories or thoughts?

Ooo, good catch on the anagram. smile Yeah, I'm pretty sure the boat's the one from Book the 12th given the spatula oars etc. But going back to "A snicket brae" and the other side of the poster, perhaps that means that it's LS who's hiding in the cave/hill thing, waiting for the Baudelaires?

Here is a theory, though I've no sound proof for it.

There are two Beatrice Baudelaires, and one is older than the other, we've gathered from context. The older Beatrice, that LS loved, misinterpereted something printed about him in the Daily Punctilio and, presumably because of that, ended up marrying another man (The Vile Village). Also, in the telegram near the end of The Beatrice Letters, LS says to "Mrs. Baudelaire" "Rumors have reached me of your pregnancy," and he wishes her a healthy beautiful baby girl, etc.

My conclusion is this: Beatrice Baudelaire, mother of Violet, Klaus, and Sunny, was the selfsame Beatrice whom LS loved, and the second, younger Beatrice is none other than the siblings' youngest sister, born after the fire while they were in hiding.

Maybe the theory's out there a little bit, but I think it's plausible!

I agree in theory that Beatrice is the mother of the Baudelaire orphans, but I think however, that Beatrice #2 is the baby girl LS refers to in the telegram. She was then taken by the ankle join the V.F.D. years later before Violet was born or sometime after, before Violet could remember anything. I'm assuming that while your child is in training at V.F.D., their identity is a secret.

I also think that Beatrice #2 is older due to the fact that USUALLY when you name a child after the parent, they assume that they're will be no more children.

Huh! I didn't think of that one! That's a good one! Though all this time wrapping that starts to go on in TBL is starting to hit me over the head with a lead pipe. @_@

My brain hurts so much! most of my theorys have been said but I have a feeling that the children meet beatrice after the 12th book. As klaus says he would of fallen apart if it was not for beatrice (after the hotel burnt down). Maybe in the 13th book?