Encouraged by discussion elsewhere on the Forum, I'm shamelessly plugging a story I haven't finished yet. "Silver, Blaise" started as an idea for that favourite situation I used also in "The Mystery of Cottage Grove" of the undercover cop girl who will submit to all sorts of things rather than blow her cover. I had the idea of the story extensively reflecting the Sherlock Holmes story "Silver Blaze" but also the James Bond story "Goldfinger".
The central figure, Detective Constable Aashi Bhatt, is sent by Detective Sergeant Talker to inflitrate a suspect country club run by sinister Vincent Ghoulfinger...do you get the idea this isn't entirely serious? Aashi soon finds out that some customers pay for certain extras. The plot thickens when a celebrity guest disappears. It doesn't help when she starts running into people at the club who know her real identity. I shouldn't say more about the plot.
Originally I saw this as a one-part story, but I kept on thinking of new twists and this was partly because I found Aashi an interesting and amusing character - more subtle than, say, Sally West. She's intelligent, well-educated, assertive, by no means without sexual experience. She belongs in a circle of glossy, trendy young people (often, but not always, Asian) wearing fashionable clothes and unconsciously looking down on old people, unfashionable people and so on - but she's conscientious, sympathetic and far more naive than she realises - failing to recognise, for example, the nature of Ghoulfinger's female assistant's interest in her. She's perhaps a bit posh and conceited for a police constable, but then she chose a profession her glossy friends would have seen as naff. She also has a beautiful bottom.
I realised some way back I'd have to cut it into episodes, but because it's quite tightly plotted, I'm writing the whole thing first. |