She wrote six popular crime novels between 1948 and 1966, all with recognisable settings in and around Melbourne.

After leaving school, she briefly studied commercial art at Melbourne Technical School before working as a telephonist at the Central Telephone Exchange in Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, which formed the basis of her first novel Murder in the Telephone Exchange.

[3] Maggie Byrnes series Mother Paul series June Wright's novel, The Devil's Caress was adapted for stage by Wendy Lewis and premiered in Sydney in March 2018.

The exhibition involved architecture students designing new dust jackets for Wright's book Faculty of Murder.

[5] Her books also feature in Highlights and Lowlifes (29 June to 31 August 2015), an exhibition on the Holdings in the Australian Detective Fiction Collection at Fisher Library, The University of Sydney which showcased 19th century crime writers such as Fergus Hume (“Mystery of a Hansom Cab”); the early Boney novels of Arthur Upfield; and Australia's under recognised female crime writers such as Ellen Davitt and Mary Fortune through to the 20th century's Pat Flower, Pat Carlon, Margot Neville and June Wright.