When do you think the duchess of Winnipeg's ball took place? Because in book 8 both Lemony and Breatrice's names can be found on the list of patients in the hospital and I was thinking maybe they were there for injuries in the fire?
Yes, I was aware of the infamous “Beatrice Baudelaire” anagram on the list of patients from “The Hostile Hospital”.
For those who don’t know, here are the anagrams and their solution:
Ed Valiantbrue - Vnt Baudelaire
Ada O. Übervillet - Violet Baudelar
Albert E. Deviloeia - Violet Baedelaire
Laura V. Bleediotie - Violet Baudelaire
Al Brisnow - Lisa Brown, wife of Daniel Handler
Carrie E. Abelabudite - Beatrice Baudelaire
Eriq Bluthetts - Brett Helquist, the series’ illustrator
Lisa N. Lootnday - Alison Donalty, the series’ art director and hardcover designer
Linda Rhaldeen - Daniel Handler, real-life author of the series
Monty Kensicle - Lemony Snicket
Ned H. Rirger - Red Herring
Ruth Dercroump - Torch Up Murder but also Rupert Murdoch, owner of Harpercollins, who first published “A Series of Unfortunate Events”.
It seems to me that this list was meant as an easter egg rather than a group of actual clues. If we assume Beatrice Baudelaire was an actual patient, we also have to assume that Rupert Murdoch, Alison Donalty and co. are patients as well. Which would seem a bit excessive.
Daniel Handler loves to spoil the ending of his books by placing carefully hidden clues in the text: this list is meant to spoil the very last revelation of the series.
You could make the argument that it’s also a proof of Beatrice’s survival but I didn’t want to clutter my article with this complication, since its canonicity is controversial. Either way we end up with the same result, give or take; if we assume that Beatrice survived the fire which destroyed the Winnipeg castle, she just ends up at Hostile Hospital due to severe burn damage. At which point she just dies, for good, in Heimlich’s fire.
