Malcolm (Max) Afford (1906-1954), playwright and novelist, was born on 8 April 1906 at Parkside, Adelaide. Known as Max, he stated working as a reporter at theNewsandMailin 1926-31. He had his first story publishedinSmith's Weeklyin 1928, and wrote for the radio. His first play to be broadcast was macabre: it included a thunderstorm, a wronged mistress, a maniac, and a suicide. Afford wrote more than sixty radio and stage plays and eight crime novels and gained an international reputation.  Afford died of cancer on 2 November 1954.

No. 63 - Sinners In Paradise 

Max Afford, well-known to thousands of listeners for his radio serials, has written a fast-moving story of murder in the tropics.