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>From: Mario
Taboada[SMTP:matrxtech@sprintmail.com]
>Sent: Friday, December 12, 1997 9:03 AM
>To: rara-avis@icomm.ca
>Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS:Gault
>
>
>Tosh Berman:
>
><<This might have been a subject matter I missed
on this list, but who
>is William Campbell Gault?>>
>
>Gault (1910-1995) was a prolific writer of mysteries
and books for young
>people; in a long career, he wrote some of the most
interesting private
>eye novels I have ever read (two series, featuring
Brock Callahan and
>Joe Puma, respectively), nonseries novels, and many
short stories for
>the pulps. What's remarkable about Gault is the
freshness and
>spontaneity of his authorial voice (as fresh as
Willeford, if not on the
>same level of literary wizardry), the consistent level
of his work (I am
>not aware of any really weak books of his), his sense
of humor and
>gentle irony, and his powers of observation of people
and details. I
>consider him a master, even though he did not have the
incredible
>inventiveness and virtuosity of a Fredric Brown, or
the clockwork
>precision of a Howard Browne. I would say that his
virtues are less
>visible and therefore his work seems at first sight
more modest than
>that of other famous writers. But only at first
sight...In that respect,
>he resembles the great Charles Williams.
>
>Regards,
>
>Mario Taboada
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