--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "foxbrick"
<foxbrick@...> wrote:
>
> --- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Bill Crider"
<macavityabc@>
> wrote:
> >
> > In response to Todd Mason's comment about how
he'd like to get
his
> hands on
> > William Campbell Gault's sports novels that one
of them, FAIR
PREY,
> was
> > published under the pen name Will Duke. It's a
Graphic Books
> original. The
> > sport is golf, and it's not noir.
>
> Thanks, Bill! I'm certainly familiar with Gault's
sports-pulp
short
> fiction and YA sports fiction novels, but that he
published no-
bones-
> about-it adult sports fiction novels seemed likely,
but I didn't
have
> the wit to ask Richard or anyone
previously.
>
> Todd Mason
Hey, I guess you just did ask. I would suggest Gault's third
novel THE CANVAS COFFIN (1953, Dutton with Dell reprint)
which starts out this way:
"I remember he hit me with a high right hand about halfway
through the seventh round. That's really all Charley ever
had, that right hand; it's what kept him from the title and
now it was keeping him in beat-out blondes. A great spoiler,
Charley had been."
Gault always knew how to open a story. I read that and know
right off that it's the real deal. I miss that cranky old
bastard.
Richard Moore
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