'Murder Mystery' at Perkins House sells out

It did not take long for Colfax's latest Halloween-related event to sell out, despite Halloween being more than four months away.

“It was very, very quick. It was going crazy,” said event planner Caleb Cox, director of sales and marketing at Best Western Wheatland Inn. “The phone was ringing off the hook all day.”

“Murder Mystery on the Palouse,” a real-life game of Clue to take place at the historic Perkins House mansion in Colfax Oct. 28 and 29, was posted online as a Facebook event Wednesday, July 6, and had sold out just two days later, with 20 spots available each night.

Cox said he got t...