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Scotland has a way of getting under your skin. One rain-soaked weekend in Glasgow was all it took to spark a new case in my detective series—a story that begins beneath the university tower, where the stone remembers more than it should.
Beneath the grand Gothic spires of the University of Glasgow lies a history steeped in whispers. Corridors run dark and narrow, stairwells twist into shadow, and the air tastes of dust, ink, and secrets long buried.
Designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott, the Main Building looms over the city like a watchful witness. Its sandstone arches, vaulted ceilings, and cloistered quads make the perfect stage for a mystery that doesn’t want to be solved.
Glasgow, 1920s. A student vanishes after claiming to have uncovered something hidden beneath the university. No body. No witnesses. Just a trail of cryptic notes, each one stranger than the last.
Leila, Josh, and Pete pick up the trail, chasing those notes down through forgotten stairwells and locked doors, until the campus gives way to the old vaults—a maze of stone, silence, and stale, unmoving air.
Down there, the dark presses in. Footsteps echo where no one walks. The handwriting on the final note looks fresh, as if someone had been waiting for them to arrive.
What secrets lie beneath the tower? What did that missing student really find in the vaults? And when Leila, Josh, and Pete finally reach the heart of the maze, will they uncover the truth—or simply join the list of names that never came back?
The Vaults of Glasgow — a new 1920s detective mystery, coming soon.
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The perfect companion for the planning and brain storming of my 1920s mysteries: I always prefer a hot milky coffee and my tablet, deep in the thought and creating the world of Leila Voss & Associates ☕
Where the detective dreams and ideas turn into new chapters, scenes, plots, clues. Sometimes it is not always the quiet places that are the best!!
I observe people from afar…. and some of the curious unknown people unknown to me, can become the chatacters in my book.
My little writing nook: plotting cases, sketching clues, and sipping a coffee while the story comes to life.
From this coffee shop to the foggy streets of Marylebone… in 1920s, it all starts right here!!
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Pip: Detective fiction, 1920s London, fog rolling in off the Thames — someone at detective156 has decided the world needs more mysteries, and honestly, they’re not wrong.
Mara: That’s the territory today. lucylu2011f4f73ab96b has opened a new creative writing blog and we’re here at the very beginning — the launch post, the premise, the promise of a whole series to come. Let’s start with what this journey is actually about.
Pip: The question this post answers is deceptively simple: what is this blog, and why should you follow it? The answer turns out to be quite specific — this isn’t a general writing diary, it’s a commitment to document an entire creative project from first word to last.
Mara: The post sets the scene directly, and the promise is right there in the opening lines: “Join me in this brand new writing journey and I’ll share with you some of the creative ideas, plans, this blog will follow the whole process from start to finish.”
Pip: That “start to finish” framing matters. This isn’t a highlights reel — it’s a process blog, which means readers are being invited in before the answers exist. The mess, the decisions, the dead ends — all of it, presumably, on the table.
Mara: And the project itself is well-defined. It’s a Detective Mystery Series, set in London during the 1920s — the post describes the setting as “the glamour, fog, and hidden secrets of London.” The era does a lot of work: the 1920s gives you post-war tension, a particular class anxiety, and a city in the middle of reinventing itself.
Pip: A detective agency run by a woman named Leila Voss, operating out of No. 7 Clay Street in Marylebone — that’s a proper address, which suggests the world-building is already underway before the first story is written.
Mara: The post closes warmly — “I’m so glad you’re here to watch these mysteries unfold” — which sets the tone as collaborative rather than performative. The reader is a companion, not an audience.
Pip: Whether the fog stays atmospheric or becomes a metaphor for something thornier is, I suppose, exactly what we’re here to find out.
Mara: The series hasn’t begun yet — what we have is a premise, a place, and a detective with her name above the door.
Pip: Which, for a mystery, is exactly the right amount of information to give away. More next time.