The opening stanza brings the reader up to speed with Maggie providing a glimpse at marital life during the 1860’s, the simple things that kept her days full and the sheer newness of life in Victoria nothing short of atmospheric, the town, people, their predicaments and place of residents be it tent or more structurally sound dwelling were clearly articulated, the mud paved streets and tobacco-infused air instantly transporting the reader to a simpler and dangerous time in Australia. With the gold mining town akin to Deadwood, this outlaw-like frontier on the surface seems lawless, or at least law-ignorant such is the ineptitude of the police force, a unit that had failed to land a conviction for the previous 5 murders prior to the killing of 17yr old Maggie Stuart in a manner reminiscent of Jack the Ripper. The Unfortunate Victim is a historical crime fiction novel set in Daylesford, outside of Melbourne in 1864.
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