Robert Gott

Hello.

Yes, good to have you along.

It is lovely to be here.

Well, I guess that's to do with what I'm interested in.

And I'm interested in the 1940s in Australia.

And it's a very underwritten period in the crime genre.

So I think I found my little niche.

And I'm exploring it to death.

I think so, and I think that domestic crime, it feels like it's a small palette, perhaps, compared to the larger picture that was the war.

Absolutely.

That was my choice because I am internally calibrated to dilettantism.

And I wanted to write a crime novel because I do like the puzzle of the crime novel.

But to do anything that was contemporaneous, you know, one has to learn so much.

And if you get it wrong, you get emails and letters and things.

And so I needed a period where none of that mattered.

And so the 1940s was perfect.

And then I wrote one comic series and one dark series, and they're both set in the same period, which shows you how lazy I am.

But I can justify it by saying that the characters in the comic series and the characters in the dark series, even though they walk down the same streets at the same time, could never actually meet because the worlds are very, very different.

Although the research...

The underpinning of the historical research is the same.