My Life Outback

<p>Arthur Upfield is known internationally for his crime novels featuring Bony the Aboriginal Detective.</p><p>These fourteen autobiographical tales were first published in 1934 and take us into Upfield's world from 1911 to the publication of <em>The Sands of Windee</em> and the trial of Snowy Rowles. They feature some of the characters and circumstances in the later Bony books.</p><p>In 1934 Upfield made a genuine attempt to living as a writer working for a six month stint on the Melbourne <em>Herald</em> writing the serial <em>The Great Melbourne Cup Mystery</em>. The year saw him also write <em>The Gifts of Frank Cobbold</em>.</p><p>His time at the Melbourne <em>Herald </em>had given him hope and impetus and his articles for <em>Walkabout </em>and the <em>Bulletin </em>finally got him through a most difficult year; a year crowned with the publication of his own account of the Snowy Rowles case <em>The Murchison Murders</em> - proving he could survive on his writing alone.</p>