Count Olaf's house is Olaf's and is situated in the city and first appears in The Bad Beginning. It is the first house that the Baudelaires live in after the Baudelaire fire and serves as the main setting for the first book. The children leave after it is revealed that Count Olaf is after their fortune. Later, in The Vile Village, Duncan and Isadora Quagmire tell the Baudelaires they were kept here for a while after they were kidnapped. Years after the unfortunate events of the Baudelaries, Lemony Snicket states that access to Count Olaf's house is impossible, though the exact circumstance as to why is unknown.