William Campbell Gault

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  • Bibliography:
    38 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1953
  • Latest Book:
    March 2015
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Full Series List in Order

A Brock Callahan Mystery

1 - Murder in the Raw (1955)
2 - Day of the Ram (1956)
3 - The Convertible Hearse (1957)
4 - Come Die With Me (1959)
5 - Vein of Violence (1961)
6 - County Kill (1962)
7 - Dead Hero (1963)
8 - The Bad Samaritan (Dec-1980)
9 - The Cana Diversion (Apr-1981)
10 - Death in Donegal Bay (Jul-1984)
11 - The Dead Seed (Dec-1984)
12 - The Chicano War (Apr-1986)
13 - Cat and Mouse (Mar-1988)
14 - Dead Pigeon (Jul-1992)

Book List in Order: 38 titles

  • Don't Cry for Me

    He was a heel . . . a blue-blood gone bad, a low-brow with class, a bum with an income. He liked low-slung cars and top-heavy girls, and he took his pleasure where he found it. He was the consort of bookies, dope-peddlers, crooks; the buddy of has-be...

  • Murder in the Raw

    A Brock Callahan Mystery - 1

    Stripped for MurderShe was a night club stripper, a black-haired, white-skinned beauty, an all-out performer few men could resist. When she came on, wolf whistles drowned out the music.And she was the kind of gal who loved her work. Something had to ...

  • Day of the Ram

    A Brock Callahan Mystery - 2

    Brock Callahan, ex guard for the L.A. Rams is now a tough private eye, weighing in at 220 pounds with a passion for Einlicher beer. In Day of the Ram Callahan becomes involved with Johnny Quirk, ace quarterback of his old team, the Rams. Quirk fears ...

  • The Convertible Hearse

    A Brock Callahan Mystery - 3

    Now who would kill a used-car salesman? In a city like L.A., Brock Callahan figures there’s about a million suspects -- each with a motive.Nevertheless, the former gridiron star turned private eye is hired by the widow to find out just who killed t...

  • Come Die With Me

    A Brock Callahan Mystery - 4

    Former L.A. Rams guard Brock "the Rock" Callahan, now a private eye, is hired by a statuesque beauty to see if her jockey husband is cheating on her, but Callahan instead ends up investigating the jockey's murder...

  • Vein of Violence

    A Brock Callahan Mystery - 5

    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 the celluloid heart of the movie business. He's s...

  • County Kill

    A Brock Callahan Mystery - 6

    Brock Callahan doesn’t have many fans left from his glory days on the gridiron. As a matter of fact, Warren Temple Lund III may be the last one. So how can Callahan refuse his request for help? It doesn’t matter that Warren is not quite twelve wi...

  • Dead Hero

    A Brock Callahan Mystery - 7

    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 choice.But an old teammate asked him for a fav...

  • Quarterback Gamble

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  • The Bad Samaritan

    A Brock Callahan Mystery - 8
    Raven House Mysteries - 15

    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’s phone call wakes him up. His only rich relative, Uncle ...

  • The Cana Diversion

    A Brock Callahan Mystery - 9
    Raven House Mysteries - 37

    He made a stupid mistake and it cost him his life! Joe Puma had been a private investigator for a long time. He should have known better than to meet a stranger on the outskirts of town - especially a stranger with Mafia connections. It was a mistake...

  • Death in Donegal Bay

    A Brock Callahan Mystery - 10

    Former professional football player turned private eye Brock Callahan gets involved when a noted con artist hires his protege, Corey Raleigh, for a surveillance job, a case that leads to the murder of a harmless vagrant...

  • The Dead Seed

    A Brock Callahan Mystery - 11

    Former football player and retired private detective Brock Callahan investigates the mysterious disappearance of his neighbors, aging film star Fortney Grange and socialite Carol Medford, and becomes involved with extortion, murder, and a bizarre cul...

  • The Chicano War

    A Brock Callahan Mystery - 12

    Former private eye Brock Callahan takes on the cause of a little Mexican-American boy whose guardian brother has disappeared and finds himself involved with a group of Los Angeles gangsters, arson, murder, and a frame-up...

  • Cat and Mouse

    A Brock Callahan Mystery - 13

    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 cut, and assumes it is a message from some croo...

  • Dead Pigeon

    A Brock Callahan Mystery - 14

    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, Mike was a second-stringer with the skill to go p...

  • Man Alone

  • Marksman and Other Stories

    William Campbell Gault won the Edgar from the Mystery Writers of America and the Life Achievement Award from the Private Eye Writers of America, but Marksman is the first collection of his extraordinary short stories from the pulps and from great dig...

  • Joe Puma, P.I.

    In the dangerous and oftentimes cynical world of private investigations, Beverly Hills-based private eye Joseph Puma is a refreshing breath of fresh air. In his job, he often encounters the seedier side of life, and yet, he retains that idealism that...



  • Agent For Murder

    Agent For Murder This book is very best in Action Adventure, Thrillers and Mystery Short stories. You are sure to enjoy these fabulous Detective stories all award winners and best of selections! Highest Recommendation! Read one today! Detective books...

  • Made to Measure

    Somewhere is an ideal mate for every man and woman, but Joe wasn't willing to bet on it. He was a man who rolled his own!...

  • The Bloody Bokhara

    Lee Kaprelian, the son of an Armenian rug merchant, unwittingly gets involved into a murder plot by a woman no less beautiful than she is mysterious....

  • Death Out of Focus

    With the motion picture industry in crisis, things were so tough for independent director Steve Leander that he was put to it to maintain his mortgage, his swimming pool and his attractive young wife. So, reluctantly, he agreed to direct a picture fo...

  • End of a Call Girl

    One of our call girls is missingIt sounded like a joke, but the old dame was scared stiff when one of her girls didn’t show up for work that night. And this one was her prettiest - and most profitable.''Find her, shamus,'' she said. ''And fast!''''...

  • The Hundred Dollar Girl

    When some strongarm hoods try to muscle in on the fight game, hefty Joe Puma is hired to find out who's doing the dirty work.What looks like a typical rackets murder turns out to be a dangerous deal for the private eye. He tussles with some trigger-h...

  • Million Dollar Tramp

    The femme was fatalShe was rich, red-haired and ready for anything. Her name was Fidelia and she was a tempting bit of woman even without the three million dollars she was to inherit. Only wherever she went - and she went everywhere - murder seemed t...

  • Night Lady

    Get home early tonight. I have a key I stole last time I was there. Don’t keep me waiting.The note was lying on the front seat of my car. It was on an engraved card - scented. Deborah Huntington’s.I got mad. Who did she think she was anyway? I di...

  • Run, Killer, Run

    Ex-bookie Tom Spears, framed for the murder of his wife, breaks out of prison and heads for Mexico and freedom. En route, he learns that the lawyer (and friend) who defended him has been murdered. He also discovers that his beloved wife had been unfa...

  • The Wayward Widow

    Don’t Mention MurderIt was a vulgar word in the swank millionaire town of San Valdesto. But knocking off a few citizens here and there seemed more than a grave social error to a tough-minded detective like Joe Puma.It made him sore when he discover...



  • Blood on the Boards

    Tuesday, he looked down on the body of a Mexican girl who’d been clubbed to death with a spade . . .Thursday, he took the examination for lieutenant and had a lot of trouble with it . . .Friday, his aunt died and left him more money than he bothere...

  • The Canvas Coffin

    The fighter had a dream. . . .Some men were sewing a body into canvas. It was on the deck of a ship. There was a big seam up the middle of the canvas, and now only the face was still uncovered . . .''You want to take a last look, champ?'' one of the ...

  • Square in the Middle

    She was sitting at the bar, and I could tell she was the kind of woman a married man shouldn’t look at -- even once.But I thought I was safe enough -- until the third martini. Then all of a sudden my wife and kids seemed very far away. When I woke ...

  • Sweet Wild Wench

    She was slim and she was stacked and the gold of her hair matched the gold of her bank account.In a word, she had everything. The trouble was she was too eager to give it away. The money too.I’m Joe Puma. I was hired to investigate some crackpot cu...

  • 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 and focus on the game. Burke has been doing ...

  • 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 actresses, Target perjured himself for Puma’s sake...

  • The Cold, Cold Ground

    A singer is missing, and the man looking for her is about to find trouble Mortimer Jones drives a Duesenberg, a behemoth of a car that seems to come from another era. Jones is the same way. In a city of tough guys, Jones has a soft touch. In a tow...

  • The Huddlers

    This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....

  • The Mighty Dead

    • / Science Fiction
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    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 our pressure groups united to rule the roost....

Award-Winning Books by William Campbell Gault

The Cana Diversion
1982 Shamus Award -- Paperback Original P.I. Novel
Don't Cry for Me
1953 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- First Novel


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William Campbell Gault has published 38 books.

William Campbell Gault does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Huddlers, was published in March 2015.

The first book by William Campbell Gault, Don't Cry for Me, was published in January 1953.

Yes. William Campbell Gault has 1 series.
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