The Ersatz Elevator is the sixth book in Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. The Baudelaire orphans—Violet, Klaus, and Sunny—are sent to live with Jerome and Esmé Squalor in a high?rise apartment building. As they continue to evade Count Olaf, they encounter themes of greed, superficiality, and indifference, all wrapped in Snicket’s trademark dark humor and ironic narration.