The Virtual City in The Doctor Blake Mysteries

Ballarat provides the stage upon which the ABC's riveting period crime drama The Doctor Blake Mysteries unfolds. As such, writes Lesley Speed, the city – whose size is between that of a metropolitan centre and a rural town – exemplifies the regional Gothic as well as the interaction between real and imagined places.

Additional keywords: Jean Baudrillard, simulacra, tourism, history, whodunnit, Craig McLachlan.