As soon as Klaus set Sunny down on the floor, she immediately crawled over to one of the sofas to nibble at the legs. "Well, I can tell Sunny's gonna feel right at home here." he commented to Violet.

"Yeah, she's got all these things to bite. But what about us? What's here for us to be interested in?" asked Violet. "

I don't know, but I'm sure we'll find something." Klaus said. With that, the two elder Baudelaires began to look around the lobby for anything that might peak their interests.

Violet headed right for the elevator she noticed behind the concierge desk, which had an "Out of Order" sign in front of them. As she looked them over, admiring the ornate design on the elevator doors, she looked up at the tops of them at the floor indicator. The arrow was pointing at 11, indicating the elevator was still on the 11th floor of the 12 story hotel. Violet assumed the elevator had gotten jammed on that floor, but her gut was telling her something more. She had a strange feeling that maybe this was the reason why the hotel was condemned, but she couldn't figure out why she felt that way. Surely, an elevator accident wouldn't shut down an entire 12 story hotel, would it, she thought to herself. She even wondered if she could invent a way to get into the elevator shaft and figure out the reason the elevator was jammed.

While Violet was thinking about inventions and elevators, Klaus had actually found a library off the main lobby. To him, it was strange but delightful to find a library in a hotel, much less a condemned hotel. All the hotels he had been in when he had taken vacations with his parents in the past did not have libraries, but that didn't matter to him. He had not read a decent book in a long time and was eager to do so right now. The first one that caught his eye was a book on the many symphonies of Mozart and Beethoven, which he pulled from the shelves and promptly began reading.

Sunny, however, was most interested in the discarded suitcases. She soon grew tired of nibbling on the sofa legs and crawled over to the suitcases, eager to see what bitable contents they held. The first one she tried to get into was locked, but that didn't faze her. The next one that caught her eye was an old hatbox and she easily lifted the lid off. Inside was a fancy, white, wide brimmed hat trimmed with lace. Even though she knew she shouldn't do it, Sunny lifted the hat out of the box. She was just about to sink her four sharp teeth into it when she heard Violet call out "Sunny, what are you doing?"

Innocently, Sunny squeaked "Eeyoo." which meant "I'm gonna bite this hat, what do you think I'm doing?"

Violet glared at her little sister and said "That hat used to belong to someone, so show some respect." Sunny stuck out her lip and pouted, determined to get her way. But it was no use trying it with Violet, she had seen Sunny do this before to get her way and was not fooled one bit.

"Just put it back, ok? Go chew on that signpost over there." said Violet, pointing to the signpost that held the Tip Top Club sign.

Sunny groaned "Auda" as she put the hat back, which meant something along the lines of "If you ask me, I think it's strange suitcases are still in a condemned hotel."

As the youngest Baudelaire headed over to the signpost, her older sister began to take in everything that they had discovered in the lobby that day. A library still filled with many books, abandoned suitcases, an elevator stuck on the 11th floor. Violet had this strange feeling that all of these were in someway part of how and why the Hollywood Tower Hotel was condemned.

At nighttime

It was now nightfall. The lobby was pretty eerie at night, but thankfully Violet had brought the headlamp she invented with them so that gave them some light. As the children sat around in wearing the nightclothes from their suitcases and eating raw carrots, they pondered what they had discovered that day.

"So you think everything we found is part of the reason why this hotel has been condemned since 1939?" Klaus said.

Violet ran her finger along the carpet and said "Yeah I do. The elevator being jammed may have caused it to be condemned, but I highly doubt it."

"Don't forget that burn mark on the outside. Maybe when the building was struck by lightning, it caused a mass panic." Klaus said.

Sunny, who had finished eating her carrot, was tired and nodding off to sleep, but she had been wondering why the abandoned suitcases were still in the lobby. All three children couldn't help but feeling something bad had happened in this hotel all those years ago, but couldn't figure out what went wrong or why the things they had discovered that day had anything to do with what happened. As Violet turned off the headlamp and all three children fell asleep on the sofas, little did they know they would discover another clue about the hotel the very next day.