The next morning, she prepares breakfast for the troupe, but Olaf is furious at the cold meal. She sleeps in a casserole dish in the car trunk. Meanwhile, Olaf and his troupe have reached the summit of Mount Fraught, and Sunny is forced to do their chores. He calls it a 'Vertical Flame Diversion' and at the end they reach a 'Vernacularly Fastened Door', which allows the trio through once they solve three literary questions. At night, the scout wakes Violet and Klaus and leads them up a chimney. A masked Snow Scout communicates with the Baudelaires with 'V.F.D.' phrases such as 'very foul day'. Snow Scouts, led by Bruce (the man who collected Uncle Monty's reptiles from The Reptile Room), are occupying the cave, and Carmelita Spats (a student from The Austere Academy) is to be crowned Snow Queen. They travel up the mountain and are attacked by Snow Gnats, so they take cover in a cave. The caravan comes to a halt at the very edge of the cliff, and tumbles off when Violet and Klaus step out, leaving them with only a few clothes. From materials in the caravan, Violet frantically constructs a drag chute and instructs Klaus to mix together sticky foodstuffs, which he pours on the tires. Sunny is trapped in a car with Count Olaf, Esmé, and the theater troupe, which now includes the carnival's henchpeople. The book has received positive reviews and been translated into several different languages.Ĭontinuing on from The Carnivorous Carnival, Violet and Klaus are in a caravan rolling down the Mortmain Mountains. They meet Quigley Quagmire, a character who they thought to be dead, and visit the headquarters of a mysterious organization called 'V.F.D.' They are reunited with Sunny and manage to escape from Olaf.

In the novel, Violet and Klaus Baudelaire make their way up the Mortmain Mountains to rescue their sister Sunny from Count Olaf and his troupe. It was illustrated by Brett Helquist and released on September 23, 2003. The Slippery Slope is the tenth novel in the children's novel series A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket.

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