![]() ![]() She shows him the statue he’s looking for, along with numerous other Bombinating Beast items that have long been in her family.Īs Markson continues to develop outlandish theories about how the Mallahans stole the statue, Snicket begins to wonder if there’s much truth to Mrs. ![]() She says it’s in her blood to carry on the journalistic tradition. Moxie’s parents, both former reporters, ran the local paper. Sallis claims a family named Mallahan, who lives in a lighthouse up the road, has taken the statue.Īt the lighthouse, Snicket meets a girl with a typewriter named Moxie Mallahan. ![]() The figurine depicts a mythical creature of town lore called the Bombinating Beast, which bears characteristics of a sea horse, a hawk and a chicken. She tells them someone has stolen a precious statue and makes the duo promise to return it to its rightful owner. Snicket and Markson meet with their client, an elderly woman named Mrs. They intend to work in Stain’d-by-the-Sea, a small town once entirely underwater that now survives by extracting and selling octopus ink. Markson, wild-haired and testy, drives them out of the city in her battered roadster. Theodora Markson, he sneaks out a teashop window and meets her. Following instructions from his new chaperone, S. At nearly 13, Lemony Snicket graduates from a mysterious spy program and begins his internship. ![]()
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