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.
Damon Knight, noted science fiction critic and one-time editor of Popular Publications, wrote the following about Gault's sports fiction:[1] I liked the characterization in those stories; I liked the description; I liked the fist fights; I liked the love interest.
[5] Gault's most famous detective protagonist is Brock Callahan, L.A. 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.