Langley Chamber of Commerce launches new website

Congrats to all Langley Chamber staff and board on the launch of the new website! Merchants can sign up online for new membership, new businesses can learn about starting a business in Langley, and island-wide events are listed. In addition our new Business Directory provides a robust listing of Chamber members and island businesses. Join the Chamber today and learn about the benefits!…

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Mystery Weekend 2024 – Another successful weekend!

Many thanks to all that came out for another successful Mystery Weekend! This beloved Langley event attracts thousands of visitors each year and this year was the best by far. Langley merchants were overall pleased with the amount of new visitors in the area for the weekend. Mystery Weekend 2025 will be on February 22-23. Merchant, sponsorship, and vendor opportunities are available. Contact us for more info. …

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Mystery Weekend 2024 Solution

Greetings. As most of you know I am Texas Ranger, Ranger Chase Ketchum. Long ago I developed a relationship with the Langley Police Department as a consultant and I want to thank them for their assistance with this confusing mystery.

When I arrived Friday morning they gave me the car’s registration and informed me that the owner, Claire Voyant, was missing. We quickly discovered that the car had been sold to Del Orien and Ed Sill but where was Claire? My interviews with those who knew her were disturbing. She had, for some days, been feeling an approaching darkness, an impending doom. I wondered if her premonitions had brought her harm. Fortunately, I was able to locate her at her sister’s home in Roslyn. We spoke and she told me the darkness, dread and anxiety had overcome her Thursday night and she fled town. Her credit card receipts confirm her story.

I found myself faced with 24 possible suspects and so started by eliminating those with solid alibis.

Ray and Electra Lux. The victim’s parents. It didn’t take me long to understand why Cy had broken off contact with them and changed his name. Keeping an open mind is crucial to detective work but two minutes into my interview with Ray I wanted to punch that smug, greedy, self-aggrandizing little narcissist in the face and jail him just as a public service.

Unfortunately security cameras at SeaTac confirm that Ray and Electra were both there at 8 a.m. Their limo was blocking several of the departure lanes while the poor driver unloaded and checked four large pieces of luggage. Meanwhile Ray and Electra were carrying on some sort of argument. Security couldn’t get them to move. Traffic backed up. It was a mess. They seem to create bad feelings wherever they go but the bottom line is they weren’t in Langley when their son died.

Blackie Beardsley and Tap Hopper were brought into town by the Luxes very recently and had no history with Cy before arriving, so they seemed unlikely suspects.

At least they did until I found out that Tap suffers from Metamfiezomaiophobia (Met-zam-feez-o-my-o-fobia)- a fear of mimes. Irrational fears do sometimes cause people to kill, however when Cy was around Tap just turned into a pile of quivering jelly – completely unable to function.

Blackie was quite a help to me. His background in robotics helped me …

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