Blood on His Hands

Blood on His Hands is a 1936 Australian novel by Max Afford. It was his first novel and featured Jeffrey Blackburn his detective hero. It was set in Melbourne during that city's Centenary celebrations. Afford wrote the novel for a competition held by John Long a publishers in London, submitted it in December 1934, then while waiting to hear back wrote a sequel. John Long accepted it and offered a contract for three books. The novel was published in London before Australia.

The novel was reprinted several times. By 1940 it had sold 34,000 copies.

Afford wrote a short story with this title in 1934 for Smith's Weekly.