My research has yielded conclusively that even a silencing compressor could not explain the shallow wound I saw on Tara! This truly is a closed door mystery – closed to logic as well as physic! Am I bested so?!
I do realize I should not make such a conclusion until I have tried to understand this Mann character; has anybody found information on where this Baskerville Commons Apartment is? And if Mann lives there, what his number maybe?
I know you told me not to gloat about me being right about Loverose being innocent, but… neener neener, as they say in this world!
Listen, you senile bumpkin, I have not eliminated her yet… it just appears a more complicated mystery than I anticipated. And I might add it was the method of LOGIC and DEDUCTION that yielded the fact. Your method, if I should call it so, led you to conclude that she was shot through a closed window!
Apologies, I’ve been away all day and haven’t been able to do much. Pressing matters around here.
The phone system is set up so that numbers have a three digit “Area Code” before they start. That is what the (971) is before the five digit phone number. This area code allows tracing of the number to a general locale. This area code happens to lead here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_codes_503_and_971
Going from the fact that it is an apartment, chances are it is in one of the major cities in that area, the most likely being Salem. Unfortunately, the area code cannot give me more information than this. There are multiple services online that you can find with a simple search engine that will give you the precise address of a building when you input the phone number. Unfortunately, I have yet to discover one of these that does not cost money. If you deem it worth while, by all means go ahead.
In other news, my compatriots and I are attempting to remotely access the records of phone messages to that number in an attempt to find a clue. This method is what gave us the Moriarty voice clip we played for you recently. I will begin coming up with and attempting more methods of gaining the knowledge we seek.
Well, a search result for the apartment name only turns up THIS:
http://sites.google.com/site/baskervillecommons/
It appears to be a mockery of apartment sites, and I’m not really convinced it is at ALL relevant, but I figured I would hand it to the real detective so that he can decide.
I do not understand this ‘electronic mail’ nonsense, nor do I care to! Will one of you, my friends, or one of Holmes’ friends, e-mail that Baskerville site and ask about Mann?
Thank you kindly!
Already working on it.
Success! My compatriots have been in contact with the building owner and have received her reply!
“Are you asking about Kenny Mann? He used to live here at Baskerville,
but he moved out fairly recently. If you’re trying to contact him, I
can give you his new address– he gave it to me in case I needed to
forward any mail:
122 Bosworth Road,
Starsight Apartments.
Hope that helps!”
This should be all the information you need, I believe. Best of luck!
Starsight Apartments? I have definitely seen that before… I believe it’s in the area. I’ll get Don Quixote to take a look at it.
Luck! I remember the name Starsight Apartments from Tara’s blog, which I reread earlier today! It is the building right across from the Loverose Apartments!
Across the road? Why that would imply… no, it can’t be. The windows were closed; was she shot through a closed window like you said? Impossible…
I think you and I should search the Starsight room tomorrow. Do you agree, Mr. Holmes?
I concur; let us meet 11:30 tomorrow at Starsight Apartments.
Wait, wouldn’t there have had to have been a bullet hole in the window? Don’t tell me you didn’t actually CHECK that! And one would think Tara’s body would be lying in a way that faced the window, right?
If you examined the room and then discounted that theory, one would assume you CHECKED for those things.
…You did, didn’t you?
What a knave you are!
Do you believe I’m BLIND, Mr. Sicon? That if the window was broken as a result of a BULLET HOLES I would not have seen such a crack? My methods have been questioned before but not in this way! What have I ever done to be so basely insulted, that I would have missed such a blatant, obvious, glaring detail as a bullet hole in the cursed window?!
NO!! The window was not broken! There was nothing to indicate that the window was broken in any way! And YOU, sir, ought verily to remove the obscene arrogance in your tone if you at all wish to give inquiry of my case in the future!!
And you DID ask Loverose to confirm that the windows were actually closed when she came in, didn’t you? Because the obvious workaround to having no bullet hole present would be for Loverose to have closed the window when she came in, which, if it happened, is suspicious.
Who would go straight to close a window when they found a corpse in a room?
I am confused merely because you I was so sure you DID check for such an obvious thing. Since you obviously DID, how could this theory of Don’s be at all sensible? I just do not understand why you seem to be considering it.
When I entered the room… it was closed. It was not broken. It did not have a bullet hole in it. I did not SEE Mrs. Loverose close the window; I would have taken note if I saw Mrs. Loverose close the window. I may not have asked her if the window was closed if she entered the room, but surely no matter her intention it would have been a useless question to ask. If she was innocent, and she didn’t close it, she would have told me so. If she closed it, she must have had some intention in the murder, so she would have lied to tell me she didn’t.
Let me also relate this; the weather outside is muggy, and such humidity would have left condensation on the window sill if the window were left open for any substantial period of time – say, at least an hour. But there was none. And given that Tara was killed in a carpeted area of her apartment, I tried to see any sign that there were footsteps or any signs of a soul walking around the body at the time of her death; but there was none. There is a conspicuous lack of evidence that somebody took time to interfere with the crime scene inside of the room – including closing the window. I did not mention these things because they were negatives; they weren’t. I can not mention everything that wasn’t in crime scene. Forgive me that I did not anticipate being so lectured by someone who so rudely insinuates that he is smarter than I!
I have some guesses about this. We are now trying to find out when Mann has moved to Starsight Apartments.
If he moved after Tara’s murder, he would likely be the one who called her, and he may currently be trying to get closer to your investigation.
If he moved before, then we need to find out who moved in after him, as (s)he would possibly be the one who called Tara; on the other hand, it would point to Mann as possible murderer.
Thank you for your description, Holmes. Now, as to your first paragraph, that makes perfect logical sense to me. It is, in fact, the way my OWN train of thought went when I considered the subject for the first time.
As to the second, well, that answers that question, now doesn’t it? I understand the impossibility of answering with such details every time, and I do not expect you to. I and my group would appreciate it if you merely told us that due to your deductions, you deem such a prospect impossible. We DO trust your judgement, you know.
And finally, I did NOT intend to insinuate that I was more intelligent that you, so I apologize for inadvertently offending you. As I said, I am confused as to why you seemed to be doubting what your logic told you already. Perhaps you were not, and I merely misunderstood your post. This just goes to show that it is hard to convey things such as this across the internet. I will henceforth pretend you never leveled such insults against me, so all is forgotten.
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I accept your apology, in what sincerity it contains.
I apologize if I misjudged your irony as criticism. I am not attuned to register the fine details of such expression upon the inter-net.
Well, it seems that you three have it under control.
Just in case you are having communication problems with your partner, I feel obliged to tell you that a woman known to us as Deanna Hackins is overly interested in your investigation, going as far as stalking Quixote – we’re not sure if she’s doing it physically or digitally, but some comments from her make us assume both.
Despite her behavior, she seems to be willing to see the results of your investigation. Recently, she dropped a hint to Qiuxote – you should check the curtain rod (we are not sure which apartment she meant by that).
We have no means to find out whose cause she is loyal to. If you have the possibility, you should keep an eye on her. And, please, don’t leave Quixote alone. We are worried that he might get in trouble.