The Dead are Blind is a 1937 Australian novel by Max Afford featuring his hero Jeffrey Blackburn.

[3] As with the first two Afford novels, Dead are Blind was published in London before Australia.

[4] It was the third novel under a three-book contract Afford had with John Long.

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But when the leading actress collapsed, seemingly with heart failure, he found that chance had led his steps into one of the most intriguing and bewildering crime cases of the year.”[8]