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Kogorou wrote: As I promised: The next Williams and Borner Case just for you.
You can go on here, because this will take some time.
This time I tried to keep it short(well I tried) and not to loose myself into the lyrical abyss
Some information won't be needed and some are really important!

Williams and Borner - Aunt Merries "Vacation"

Williams and Borner are called out to the landhouse of the McKenzies, an old an royal family of the Country.
The oldest lady of the House, Mery McKenzy fell into a depression after her husband, Lord Karl McKenzy, died four years ago.
The cicumstances of his dead are not really clear and only the mistress seems to knows something about it but always kept quiet.
He was 80 years old.

Even given her age, 78, she went out with several other men and it's said that she even was sexual active with them.
The childen are very concerned because they would equally get the heritage split between them as long as the mistress dies in the landhouse.

But now it happened - Aunt Merry is gone. Four postcards are left behind and a scrapped piece of paper with strange sentences.
Each of the postcards have the family Logo stamped onto them. Borner ordered the Head-Butler to get the cards for inspection.

There is a Traveldiary but the only thing written in it is
"There is nothing here. I took it with me. My beloved memories ~KMcK"

The people who are with Williams and Borner:
Sally Hamroy (40) is married to the family attorney and was always against her mother meeting other men.
Kelly McKenzy (35) isn't married, anymore, because she runs a travel agency in town. She doesn't really care about her mother.
Becky Hamroy (14) child of Sally and Frank Hamroy.

All of them emplyoees have a histroy of living in a family that always served the McKenzies.
The old generation always drops out when the sons and daughters are old enought to take over.

Butlers:
Henry Foller (45) is the head-butler and was raised at the landhouse and wanted to follow the family tradition.
James Foller (40) is the younger brother of Henry and doesn't look like his boss. They easily get into a fight over little things.
Paul Schwan (28) is the only child of the Schwan family, he lost his parents in a fire ten years ago. Until now the cause of the fire is unsolved.
Maids:
Caroline Foller (36) the youngest of the Foller family and she doesn't like her borthers at all.
Tim Gardener (15) working under the supervision of Caroline because he started working just a few months ago. He is different from the other servents
because he was picked by the mistress herself and gets along well with Henry Foller, who nobody really likes that much.

Gossip about the Family:
From Sally Hamroy:
* Mother always fooled Father. I saw her dating many men before.
* Father did his best to keep this family together but it cost him his life, at least I heard that from my mother when we had a fight.
* Their vacations where long and father was always so relaxed afterwards.

From Becky Hamroy:
* Granny isn't like mommy says. She is nice and gentle in her own way.
* Mommy is crazy too but she doesn't mean any harm.
* Once grandpa brought me a rock from their journey.

From Kelly McKenzy:
* Mom and Dad always liked to travel they went to so many places but only one they could never travel to. It would have killed my father.
* His lungs where weak and he needed oxygen after he went out shopping. He was fast with that. Ten minutes to town and ten back.

From Frank Hamroy:
* Well my clients always have been in a struggle about the heritage. I tried to talk sense into them. I really tried.
* That stamps are worth nothing.

From Henry Foller:
* The mistress had some business of her own, the master didn't know about it.
* What happens in this house stays in this house.

From James Foller:
* I don't know what happened but Henry was shocked when he found the body of the master.
* That poor Tim isn't really liked by anyone because of my brother.

From Paul Schwan:
* I remember a time where everything was easygoing and everbody got along well you know... before the master died.
* The master died after he went shopping. His oxygen was empty.

From Caroline Foller:
* My Father doesn't want me meet with Tim. He says Tim a strange because the tradition was broken by the mistress herself. I never heard him talking like that about the mistress.
* There never was a funeral for the Schwans. It's said the were burned in Hellfire.

From Tim Gardener:
* I am very gratefull to be here. Finally.

The scrapped piece of paper
"Emtpyness is the key, a substitute the solution."

Aunt Merry isn't a fan of long letters but a great fan of riddles.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Card 1:

V is gone and 14 placed in, right at third- and last in place.
Both birds where only toys in my hands, at the same time.
Experiments go wrong and this one failed because of the oxygen.

Card 2:

After the fourth the 15 comes, also second to last.
Faithful and careful are two different things.
I wasn't careful enough, but could live with it at least a bit.
The danger in the cave, so gave it up and saved at least another life.


Card 3:

12 is the only beginning of both of this words.
The reason will show the place at hand, with two more letters you have it done.
I did the penguin too, more than once. Always aware of the situation.

Card 4:

Numbers are lucky so delete the E, it isn't needed anymore.
The cub joines the flock after years and now it's safe
because of what the flames consumed the 4 lonely years.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

After reading this postcards Borner knew where to search for Aunt Merry and who he has to take with him to make her come back.
He even found out what happened to the Schwans.

The questions are easy:

Where is Aunt Merry now and who knows where she is?
What is her reason to do this?
What was Borners reasoning and who took he with him?
Figure out what happened to the Schwan family.


Well you all have one week to solve this! I won't be answering any questions because I am not around anymore.
Send it via PM! NO QUESTIONS! NO HINTS! YOU HAVE ONE TRY TO GET TO GET IT RIGHT.

I will give the solution when I am back.
You won't know if you are right or wrong before.

Now brave detectives!
Start you work and save Aunt Merry until Sept. 4th 2011.

Kogorou wrote: Well here is the Solution to the latest W&B II
Anyone who still is working on this:
DON'T READ THIS.
You can still send in your PM to see if you are right.
You won't get credit because I extended the deathline twice.

To understand any of this you have to understand
"Emtpyness is the key, a substitute the solution."

The letters in the Text can be read as
VOLE
You have to find the right order because this makes no Sense
the headbutler shuffled them around and got rid of the stamps.
After Reading you will get to this part:
The reason will show the place at hand, with two more letters you have it done.
This means you will need two other letters than V O L E.


"12 is the only beginning of both of this words."
L - 12
So L is the beginning of both of the words and due to this it's the first Postcard.

O - 15
After the fourth the 15 comes but also second.
So we have LO**O

N - 14
V is gone and 14 placed in, right at third- and last in place.
LOV*ON
LON*ON

D - 4
"Numbers are lucky so delete the E, it isn't needed anymore"+"the 4 lonely years"
So we have an E and we have a D. This isn't so hard just take the right word from the two above
LOVEON
LONDON

Where is Aunt Merry now and who knows where she is?
What is her reason to do this?
Reason: To love on
Place: London
Who knows : Henry Foller because he got rid of the stamps. (it's a butlers duty to look for new mail)

But therre is more in the letters.
Let's have a look at them.

3)
12 is the only beginning of both of this words.
The reason will show the place at hand, with two more letters you have it done.
I did the penguin too, more than once. Always aware of the situation.

=>The penguin means the butler. So Aunt Merry also "did" the Butlers but was always aware that something could happen.

2)
After the fourth the 15 comes but also second.

=> Read this slow and for get about the last few words.
After the forth the 15 comes => She got pregnant. Well How do we figure out who's the son?
We only have the 15 it means O but there is no one names O. So let's assume there is another meaning to it.
15 .... look up ahead and you see who's 15 years old => Tim Gardener

Faithful and careful are two different things.
I wasn't careful enough, but could live with it at least a bit.
The danger in the cave, so gave it up and saved at least another life.

=> Obviously there was something going on and Tim was send away to be save.
Why would he be send away to be protected from what? Well the answer is easy Lord McKenzy

1)
V is gone and 14 placed in, right at third- and last in place.
Both birds where only toys in my hands, at the same time.

=> Both Birds means the Schwan Family. At the same time .... well Aunt Merry was quite active ^^

Experiments go wrong.

=> So the experiment with the Schwans went wrong but what could it be?

4)
Numbers are lucky so delete the E, it isn't needed anymore.
The cub joines the family after years and now it's safe
because the flames consumed the 4 lonely years.

=> Now we see that the cub (Tim) is back at home because the flames (a fire) killed something (or someone)

With that we have quite a nice overlook on what was going on. But there are still questions unanswered!
What was Borners reasoning and who took he with him?
=> This one is quite easy now isn't it.
Borners reasoning:
With some looks on the letters and his sharp mind he figured out that VOLE doesn't make sense... why would a mouse make any sense??
So he shuffled around a bit and got to the reasoning I presented you earlier?
Who did he take with him? Well therefor we have to look at this:
"Emtpyness is the key,..."
What would be more empty them the heart of a mother who gave up her own child?
So he took Tim Gardner and flew down to London and Aunt Merry was save back at home.

Figure out what happened to the Schwan family.
Here we have a dark secret of the McKenzies. The Schwan family died that is true.
But how?
Well the information you have should be enough to get some hunches.
Normally I don't work that way but I wanted to know how creative you can be.
There are several indicators:

From Henry Foller:
* The mistress had some business of her own, the master didn't know about it.

From James Foller:
* I don't know what happened but Henry was shocked when he found the body of the master.

From Caroline Foller:
* There never was a funeral for the Schwans. It's said the were burned in Hellfire.

This plus the hints from Aunt Merry leads to one conclusion:
Henry Foller found out that Lord McKenzy came alone his wifes afairs and put an end to them.
He burned down the house of the Schwans with nearly every family member in it.
Given the fact that Henry Foller found the master dead in his room, which can only happen if he
doesn't get enough oxyen after a shopping trip, Foller instantly knew how the fire was lit that killed the Schwans.
Lord McKenzy lit one of his oxygen-tanks.


Here is the short Version for everyone who doesn't want to read long texts


Aunt Merry is in London and Henry Foller knows it because he was the one who sratched off the poststamps on the cards and replaced them with the family Logo.
Borner has to bring Tim Gardener because he is the secret son of Merry and Henry / Because his name is Garndener (It's always the Gardener) / Emtyness in her heart