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William Campbell Gault


USA flag (1910 - 1995)

aka Will Duke, Roney Scott

William Campbell Gault  was a critically acclaimed pulp novelist. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he took seven years to graduate from high school. Though he was part of a juvenile gang, he wrote poetry in his spare time, signing it with a girls name lest one of his friends find it. He sold his first story in 1936, and built a great career writing for pulps like Paris NightsScarlet Adventures, and the infamous Black Mask. In 1939, Gault quit his job and started writing fulltime.

When the success of his pulps began to fade in the 1950s, Gault turned to longer fiction, winning an Edgar Award for his first mystery, Dont Cry for Me (1952), which he wrote in twenty-eight days. He created private detectives Brock Callahan and Joe Puma, and also wrote juvenile sports books like Cut-Rate Quarterback (1977) and Wild Willie, Wide Receiver (1974). His final novel was Dead Pigeon (1992), a Brock Callahan mystery.
 
 
Series
Joe Puma
   Shakedown (1953) (as by Roney Scott)
   End of a Call Girl (1960)
     aka Don't Call Tonight
   Night lady (1960)
   The Wayward Widow (1960)
   Sweet Wild Wench (1961)
   Million Dollar Tramp (1962)
   The Hundred-Dollar Girl (1963)
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Brock (the Rock) Callahan
   Murder in the Raw (1955)
     aka Ring around Rosa
   Day of the Ram (1958)
   The Convertible Hearse (1958)
   Come Die With Me (1961)
   Vein of Violence (1962)
   County Kill (1963)
   Dead Hero (1964)
   The Bad Samaritan (1980)
   The Cana Diversion (1982)
   Death in Donegal Bay (1984)
   The Dead Seed (1984)
   The Chicano War (1986)
   Cat and Mouse (1988)
   Dead Pigeon (1992)
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Novels
   Don't Cry for Me (1952)
   The Bloodstained Bokhara (1953)
   The Bloody Bokhara (1953)
   The Canvas Coffin (1953)
   Blood On the Boards (1954)
   Run, Killer, Run (1955)
   Fair Prey (1956) (as by Will Duke)
   Square in the Middle (1957)
   Death Out of Focus (1959)
   Quarterback Gamble (1970)
   Checkered Flag (1971)
   Dirt Track Summer (1971)
   Thunder Road (1971)
   Wild Willie, Wide Receiver (1974)
   Gasoline Cowboy (1974)
   Showboat in the Backcourt (1976)
   Cut-Rate Quarterback (1977)
   Thin Ice (1978)
   The Sunday Cycles (1979)
   Super Bowl Bound (1980)
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Collections
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Novellas and Short Stories
   The Mighty Dead (2010)
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Anthologies containing stories by William Campbell Gault
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Los Angeles Noir 2 (2010)
The Classics
(Akashic Noir)
edited by
Denise Hamilton

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Awards
Shamus Awards Best Paperback original winner (1983) : The Cana Diversion


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