Career
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:
I liked the characterization in those stories.
I liked the description. I liked the fist fights.
I liked the love interest. I like everything about them, except what they were all about.
Backfield Challenge
Bruce Benedict, Halfback
The Checkered Flag
Dim Thunder
Dirt Track Summer
Drag Strip
Gallant Colt
Gasoline Cowboy
The Karters
The Long Green
Mr.
Fullback
Mr. Quarterback
Road-Race Rookie
Rough Road To Glory
Speedway Challenge
Sunday"s Dust
Through The Lincolnshire
Thunder Road
Two-Wheeled Thunder
Wheels of Fortune
The Lonely Mound
Gault"s most famous detective protagonist is Brock Callahan, Los Angeles football star who quit because of a bad knee and set up shop in Beverly Hills as a private investigator. Several re-issued in paperback by Charter Books, circa 1988.
He also wrote a series of paperback originals in the 1950s and 1960s featuring private detective Joe Puma, whose career was spent on the seamier side of life.
Brock Callahan titles:
Murder In The Raw (1955) original title "Ring Around Rosa"
Day of The Ram (1956)
The Convertible Hearse (1957)
Come Die With Maine (1959)
Vein of Violence (1961)
County Kill (1962)
Dead Hero (1963)
The Cana Diversion (1982)
Death In Donegal Bay (1984)
The Dead Seed (1985)
The Chicano War (1986)
Cat and Mouse (1988)
Deaf Pigeon (1992)
Joe Puma titles:
Shakedown (1953 as by Roney Scott)
End of a Call Girl (1958 aka Don"t Call Tonight)
Night Lady (1958)
Sweet Wild Wench (1959)
The Wayward Widow (1959)
Million Dollar Tramp (1960)
The Hundred Dollar Girl (1961)
Non-series Paperback Original Mysteries:
Don"t Cry Foreign Maine (1952)
The Bloody Bokhara (1952. Aka The Bloodstained Bokhara)
The Canvas Coffin (1953)
Blood on the Boards (1953)
Run, Killer, Run (1954)
Square in the Middle (1956)
Fair Prey (1956. As Will Duke)
Phantom (1957)
Death Out of Focus (1959)
The Sweet Blonde Trap (1959).