The Mystery Show

Three dead ends Kline runs into: 

1. Starlee comes across a message board post of Chef Karl looking for Hans. The post said that Hans had not been in his address book for years and he is nowhere to be found online. She finds a Chef Karl in Houston and calls him up hoping he would know where to find him. Unfortunately, he had never ended up finding him. To get out of this dead end, Chef Karl directed Starlee to Bob Bland who may have been able to help her. 
2. Starlee goes to a chef’s meeting where she meets Bob Bland and learns that he was not actually Bob Six. This sets her back because she was so sure that he was indeed Bob Six all along. Starlee felt as though she was getting further away from one side of the buckle. She dealt with this by soon later meeting up with Hans where he explains to her that Bob Six was a friend of his who gave him the belt buckle. 
3. Chef Rene told Starlee that Hans may be at the chef’s meeting so she hoped to find him there. He ends up not being there- another dead end. Chef Rene then arranges Hans and Starlee to meet at his house where she would finally meet him. 

Three things Kline learns about:

1. If Starlee had never gone on the pursuit of solving this mystery, she would not have found out how Hans lost the buckle. His house had been broken into and he was robbed. Hans went to pawn shops looking for the belt buckle but obviously never found it. 
2. Another thing she learned was the story behind Bob Six. He had run Continental Airlines for fifty years and was married to Ethel Merman and then later to Audrey Meadows. His ancestors were pawnbrokers which led them to owning the largest collection of original Rembrandts in Europe after an artist pawned his work and never came back for it. 
3. Lastly, Starlee learned the relation between Hans and Six. Every summer the Continental would go on a retreat in Wyoming and Hans was always the chef for it. He would cook for almost 150 people all throughout the day and night. Hans did this for 10 years so when there was a farewell dinner, Six had given Hans the belt buckle as a gift of appreciation.