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no, I don't think so but is this what you're looking for? * The Nevermore Tree is a reference to Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven," in which a raven repeats the word 'Nevermore'. * At the start of the novel Mr. Poe receives a phone call from Mr. Fagin, a character from Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist. Fagin tells Poe that he won't accept the children because they are trouble makers, which is ironic because in Oliver Twist, Fagin runs a gang of pickpockets. * The alias that Olaf uses, Detective Dupin, may be a reference to C. Auguste Dupin, a fictional detective character created by Edgar Allan Poe. * Four of Sunny's utterances, Grebe, Merganser, Towhee and Vireo, are the names of birds. * One of the towns on the brochure for "It Takes a Village to Raise a Child" is named Ophelia, perhaps referencing Ophelia from Shakespeare's Hamlet; Mr. Poe dislikes the bank in this town, perhaps because Ophelia's father is the originator of the saying "Neither a borrower nor a lender be." * Officer Luciana, Esmé's disguised name, is probably a reference to a character in Catch-22, a novel by Joseph Heller, who tears up an address and can never find it again, just as Esmé tears the Quagmire notebooks and they are never fully reassembled. * Ogden Nash is mentioned in the book, a poet who wrote couplets. * Mr. Lesko, a town resident, has the same last name as the author Matthew Lesko who offered to teach how to get free things. Mr. Lesko says in this book that he is fine with getting his chores done for him but not having to parent the Baudelaires (he wants free laborers). * The initial unnerving nature of the crows in the city may refer to Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds. * One of the words Sunny said was Scylla, which could have referred to the monster in Homer's Odyssey. * Hector quotes Lewis Carrol's Alice in Wonderland. "Curiouser and curiouser,'" he said, quoting one of the Baudelaires favorite books. I got this from Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vile_Village#Cultural_references_and_literary_allusions

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