Pseudonyms include Roney Scott, Will Duke, Bill Gault, David Crewe & Ray P. Shotwell (1910-1995) "I'm proud of what I can do in my field. And I'm proud of the field. I don't need any false additions to that. If I could write like John Cheever, I'd write like Cheever. Unfortunately I can't, so I … Continue reading William Campbell Gault
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Joe Puma
Created by William Campbell Gault Pseudonyms include Roney Scott, Will Duke, Bill Gault, David Crewe & Ray P. Shotwell (1910-1995) Presenting the fuck-up as P.I. Not that he started that way, of course. But while straight arrow Brock "The Rock" Callahan remains William Campbell Gault's most famous creation, JOE PUMA definitely deserves some attention, too. … Continue reading Joe Puma
Sandy McKane
Created by William Campbell Gault Pseudonyms include Roney Scott, Will Duke, Bill Gault, David Crewe & Ray P. Shotwell (1910-1995) Before he came up with Brock "The Rock" Callahan, William Campbell Gault tinkered with several private eyes in various short stories, including SAUNDERS "SANDY" MCKANE, a member of an old Honolulu family, "now extinct," turned … Continue reading Sandy McKane
Mortimer Jones
Created by William Campbell Gault Pseudonyms include Roney Scott, Will Duke, David Crewe & Ray P. Shotwell (1910-1995) Like many of William Campbell Gault's private dicks, Los Angeles gumshoe MORTIMER "JONESY"JONES, is just a regular Joe, a beer-drinking guy into sports and cars. He showed up is half a dozen stories in Black Mask in … Continue reading Mortimer Jones
Pierre Apoyan
Created by William Campbell Gault Pseudonyms include Roney Scott, Will Duke, Bill Gault, David Crewe & Ray P. Shotwell (1910-1995) Armenian-American PIERRE APOYAN is a former boxer making a career change. After slugging it out in sixteen amateur and two professional bouts as "Pistol Pete", and three years working for a large detective agency in … Continue reading Pierre Apoyan
Brock “The Rock” Callahan
Created by William Campbell Gault Pseudonyms include Roney Scott, Will Duke, Bill Gault, David Crewe & Ray P. Shotwell (1910-1995) "Well, what had I brought to this trade? Three years in the O.S.S. and my memories of a cop father. Along with a nodding acquaintanceship with maybe fifty lads in the [Los Angeles Police] Department. … Continue reading Brock “The Rock” Callahan
The Fictioneers
Role Call The Fictioneers was a social club for about twenty-five or so Southern California pulp writers established in the 1930s, many of whom wrote for Black Mask. The informal club was founded by crime writers Cleve F. Adams and W.T. Ballard. The boys would meet monthly at the Nikobob Café at the corner of … Continue reading The Fictioneers