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Max Afford was born in Adelaide in 1906. He began his career as a journalist, but in the following decades he would go on to write some of the most popular radio and stage plays in Australia. Full of clever schemes and witty dialogue, Afford’s detective stories were extremely popular. He also wrote dramas with political overtones, which ranged from examinations of Australian life after the Second World War to the founding of his home town, Adelaide. In 1938 he married teacher, actor, and costume designer, Thelma Thomas, who later designed costumes for some of his stage plays.
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The plays in this collection were sourced from Project Gutenberg and The Fryer Memorial Library of Australian Literature at The University of Queensland. They have been transcribed and edited from the original texts by students. The aim of the project is to make these texts accessible and clear to read, with the author’s original punctuation and style intact.
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