Books THE VILE VILLAGE A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book the Seventh  by Lemony Sicket (Author)

"The Vile Village," the seventh book in Lemony Snicket's "A Series of Unfortunate Events," follows the Baudelaire orphans as they are placed in the care of an entire village called V.F.D. (Village of Fowl Devotees). The village is governed by strict and peculiar rules established by a Council of Elders, and the Baudelaires live with Hector, the village handyman. The village has an unusual obsession with crows, with complex roosting patterns and a fountain shaped like a crow's beak.

The Baudelaires uncover cryptic couplets left by the Quagmire triplets, their missing friends, which guide them toward rescuing the Quagmires. Meanwhile, Count Olaf appears disguised as Detective Dupin and frames the Baudelaires for the death of a man named Jacques, who is wrongfully imprisoned and later found dead. The Baudelaires are sentenced to be burned at the stake but ingeniously escape by dissolving the mortar of their jail cell with water and bread.