Upfield at Albermarle

Arthur Upfield is known internationally for his crime novels featuring Bony, the Aboriginal Detective. Little is known about his life on Albermarle sheep station, in far western New South Wales, until now. Maxine Withers study on Upfield's time at Albermarle is augmented by Upfield's letters to the overseer, E.V. Whyte, and Whyte's own photographs of the period.

In the summer of 1922, Arthur Upfield was trudging along a rough, winding track beside the Darling River when he came to Albemarle ...