混乱的旅馆 (2005)

《混乱的旅馆》（英语：The Penultimate Peril）是雷蒙尼·史尼奇系列作品《波特莱尔大遇险》的第十二部小说，于2005年10月18日出版。

情节概要

V.F.D.志工凯特·史尼奇开着计程车将波特莱尔三姐弟（紫儿、克劳斯和桑妮）送到大结局旅馆，三姐弟将在V.F.D.举行聚会前扮成旅馆门房观察客人。旅馆的经理是难以分辨的三胞胎——弗兰克、尔尼斯特和杜威，其中弗兰克是V.F.D.志工，尔尼斯特是坏人，杜威则是一个多数人都不确定是谁的人，许多人甚至怀疑这个人是否真的存在过。

在工作期间，波特莱尔三姐弟陆续见到艾丝梅·史瓜乐、卡麦丽塔·史派兹、副校长尼禄、海尔、先生、查理等诸多熟人入住大结局旅馆，还与杰洛米·史瓜乐和斯特劳斯法官重逢。但邪恶的奥拉夫伯爵也来到大结局旅馆，杜威在一场意外中不幸身亡，斯特劳斯法官联同高等法院的其余两名法官招开法庭（除法官外的所有人都得蒙上眼睛），波特莱尔三姐弟在法庭上陈述自己的经历。未料那两名法官却是奥拉夫的同伙“有胡子没头发的男人”和“有头发没胡子的女人”，奥拉夫伯爵挟持斯特劳斯法官来胁持波特莱尔三姐弟。大结局旅馆最终毁于大火之中，奥拉夫伯爵与波特莱尔三姐弟同乘一艘船出海。

改编作品

本作被改编为电视剧《雷蒙·斯尼奇的不幸历险》第三季的第五、六集。该剧的执行制片人巴里·索南菲尔德认为，《混乱的旅馆》就像是整部《波特莱尔大遇险》系列小说的高潮。

Book the Twelfth: The Penultimate Peril is the twelfth novel in the children's novel series A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket.

Plot

The Baudelaire orphans, Violet, Klaus and Sunny are travelling with pregnant V.F.D. member Kit Snicket to Hotel Denouement, the last safe place for the noble side of V.F.D to gather. She tells them that, prior to V.F.D.’s gathering in two days, they will be disguised as concierges to observe the mysterious 'J.S.,’ in order to identify them as a volunteer or a villain of V.F.D. The hotel's managers are identical twins Frank and Ernest—Frank is a volunteer, but Ernest is on the opposing side as a villain.

During their first day of disguised employment, the Baudelaires split up to assist the hotel's guests—Violet assists Esmé Squalor and Carmelita Spats by bringing them a harpoon gun with the help of a manager, Klaus assists Charles and Sir (the owners of the Lucky Smells Lumbermill) by escorting them to the sauna while also hanging "birdpaper" outside a window for one of the managers, and Sunny assists Hal (an employee at Heimlich Hospital) and another manager in locking a V.F.D device onto a door of the laundry room, converting it into a Vernacularly Fastened Door, while meeting with Vice-Principal Nero, Ms. Bass and Mr. Remora (faculty from Prufrock Preparatory School)—all the guests discuss the mysterious J.S. It was later revealed that Hugo, Collette, and Kevin (the "freaks" from Caligari Carnival) spied on them during these events.

Together the siblings discuss which manager asked for what, as each of them ran into a separate manager. Remembering a favorite poem of their father’s, Klaus concludes that Carmelita Spats requested the harpoon gun to shoot down a bird carrying the sugar bowl, as Sunny mentioned that Hal and a manager were discussing the sugar bowl (an object both volunteers and villains are seeking for unknown reasons) and the Medusoid Mycelium (a deadly fungus parasite they encounter in the previous book)—the bird's body would then land on the paper, and the sugar bowl would fall into a chute leading the laundry room, which is where the Vernacularly Fastened Door led to.

Shortly after his proposal, one of the managers encounters them and reveals himself as Dewey Denouement, the third of the secretly three brothers and the one who helped Sunny (Frank helped Violet and Ernest helped Klaus). He has created a book cataloging all information of the V.F.D. and tells them that a pool reflection of the hotel is the actual safe place, as the hotel's words and structure were designed backward to reflect the actual words onto the pool—beneath the pool is an underwater catalog containing crucial information concerning V.F.D. They are then encountered by Jerome Squalor and Justice Strauss, who have joined V.F.D. after believing messages being sent to J.S. were being addressed to them.