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Crime won’t be taking a holiday in La Conner anytime soon – at least in terms of the town’s popular murder mystery event.

Former Weekly News reporter Nicole Jennings co-wrote the Prohibition Era murder mystery script with her mom, Chris Jennings. They’re already planning next spring’s third annual production.

Nicole Jennings is developing for next year a mystery steeped in World War II intrigue.

Her aim is to craft story lines around local weapons testing and ­espionage, with fictional plots bolstered by research into the history of nearby Naval Air Station Whidbey Island and perhaps Fort Whit...