Goodreads asked Keith McTaggart:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Keith McTaggart About twenty-five years ago, I wrote with Paul Saddler, a book for school kids for Melbourne Water about sewerage - Flushing Dunnies. During research i found out that there had been a shanty town on the Collingwood Flat after the 1850's gold rush. Collingwood is now an inner suburb of Melbourne. Now shanty town meant petty criminals didn't it? And gangs and takeovers and someone to step up and take on the bad guys - it just called out for a book about crime, detectives, brothel keepers and lovers - hence, Collingwood Flat!

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