William Campbell Gault (1910–1995) was an American writer. He wrote under his own name, and as Roney Scott and Will Duke, among other pseudonyms.He is probably best remembered for his sports fiction, particularly the young-readers” novels he began publishing in the early 1960s, and for his crime fiction. He contributed to a wide range of pulp magazines, particularly to the sports pulps, where he was considered one of the best writers in the field. Damon Knight, noted science fiction critic and one-time editor of Popular Publications, wrote the following about Gault”s sports fiction
15 Ebooks por William Campbell Gault
Harry Harrison & Frank Belknap Long: Fantastic Stories Presents the Fantastic Universe Super Pack
Fantastic Universe’ started publishing in 1953 and continued until March 1960. It was one of the better magazines to launch during the boom in science fiction magazines publishing. It published many …
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William Campbell Gault: The Mighty Dead
What would it be like to live in a world which has conquered the near planets but abolished all literature? Bill Gault gives us a look at a world like this—in a not too distant future which finds all …
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Jr. Kurt Vonnegut & R. A. Lafferty: Fantastic Stories Presents the Worlds of If Super Pack #2
Worlds of If’ was a three-time winner of the Hugo Award for best science fiction magazine. ‘Worlds of If’ discovered many talented writers who would go on to dominate genre fiction. This is the secon …
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William Campbell Gault: Vein of Violence
Brock ‘the Rock’ Callahan might just be in over his head. Someone’s killed one of the last of Hollywood’s grand dames, and Callahan’s hired to find out who and why.The case takes Callahan right into …
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William Campbell Gault: Dead Hero
So it’s come to this. Brock ‘;the Rock’ Callahan, former gridiron star turned private eye – peeping in bedroom windows. It’s a dirty job, and not the kind Brock would normally take on. If he had a ch …
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William Campbell Gault: Bad Samaritan
Newly rich, married, and bored, Brock investigates an upper-class tragedy Private detective Brock Callahan, onetime star of the Los Angeles Rams, is racing toward a touchdown when the morgue&rsq …
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William Campbell Gault: Cana Diversion
While tangling with radicals, Brock stumbles on a colleague’s corpse Brock Callahan, ex-private investigator, is still not used to wealth and retirement. In fact he is struggling through a game of go …
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William Campbell Gault: Cat and Mouse
To hit Brock where it hurts the most, a vengeful stranger targets the people he loves It starts with the dead cat. Ex-private investigator Brock Callahan finds the Siamese by his mailbox, its throat …
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William Campbell Gault: Dead Pigeon
In his final case, Brock investigates the murder of his troubled college roommate Maybe Mike Gregory was too smart for football. When he and Brock Callahan roomed together at Stanford University, Mik …
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William Campbell Gault: Dead Seed
Brock’s boyhood idol moves in next door before vanishing and leaving a body in his wake In Hollywood’s golden age, there was no finer swashbuckler than Fortney Grange. Decades after he last swung on …
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William Campbell Gault: Fair Prey
A golf ace on the verge of glory stumbles over a country-club corpse Denny Burke knows that a golfer’s best resource isn’t a putter or a three iron, but the ability to shut out the rest of the world …
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William Campbell Gault: Shakedown
A corrupt P.I. will do anything to make a buck and save his own skin Joe Puma didn’t kill Albert Target, but he is happy the pimp is dead. A small-time creep whose niche was recruiting wannabe actres …
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William Campbell Gault: Death in Donegal Bay
Brock finds a case that’s too juicy to refuse Brock Callahan was still playing for the Los Angeles Rams when Alan Arthur Baker first conned him. Masquerading as an investment banker, Baker talked the …
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William Campbell Gault: Come Die with Me
Brock gets caught in a dangerous triangle between a jockey, a mobster, and L.A.’s finest blonde Gloria Malone is a big woman with a little husband, and a problem only Brock Callahan can so …
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William Campbell Gault: Mighty Dead and three more stories
Four Classic Short Stories from The Golden Age of Science Fiction. Featured here: "The Mighty Dead", "Made to Measure", "The Huddlers", and "I’ll See You in My Drea …
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