Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
Loading
WC![]()
author
William R. Cox
William Robert Cox, affectionately known as Bill, was born in Peapack, N.J. March 14 1901, worked in the family ice, coal, wood and fur businesses before becoming a freelance writer. A onetime pres...view moreWilliam Robert Cox, affectionately known as Bill, was born in Peapack, N.J. March 14 1901, worked in the family ice, coal, wood and fur businesses before becoming a freelance writer. A onetime president of the Western Writers of America, he was said to have averaged 600,000 published words a year for 14 years during the era of the pulp magazines.One of his first published novels was Make My Coffin Strong, published by Fawcett in the early 1950's. He wrote 80 novels encompassing sports, mystery and westerns. Doubleday published his biography of Luke Short in 1961.From 1951 Cox began working in TV and his first teleplay was for Fireside Theatre - an episode called Neutral Corner. It was in 1952 that he contributed his first Western screenplay called Bounty Jumpers for the series Western G-Men which had Pat Gallagher and his sidekick Stoney Crockett as Secret Service agents in the Old West, dispatched by the government to investigate crimes threatening the young nation. He went on to contribute to Jesse James' Women; Steve Donovan, Western Marshal; Broken Arrow; Wagon Train; Zane Grey Theater; Pony Express; Natchez Trace; Whispering Smith; Tales of Wells Fargo; The Virginian; Bonanza and Hec Ramsey.He wrote under at least six pseudonyms: Willard d'Arcy; Mike Frederic; John Parkhill; Joel Reeve; Roger G. Spellman and Jonas Ward (contributing to the Buchanan Western series).William R. Cox died of congestive heart failure Sunday at his home in Los Angeles in 1988. He was 87 years old. His wife, Casey, said he died at his typewriter while working on his 81st novel, Cemetery Jones and the Tombstone Wars. We are delighted to bring back his Cemetery Jones series for the first time in digital form.view less
Books by William R. Cox
Cemetery Jones 4: Cemetery Jones and the Gunslingers Hot Times Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBigger Than Texas (A William R. Cox Classic Western) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCemetery Jones 2: Cemetery Jones and the Maverick Kid Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCemetery Jones 3: Cemetery Jones and the Dancing Guns Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDeath Comes Early (A Hardboiled William R. Cox Thriller) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCemetery Jones 1: Cemetery Jones Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDay of the Gun Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMurder in Vegas (A Tom Kincaid Crime Mystery) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Tycoon and the Tigress (A Hard Boiled Thriller) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMake My Coffin Strong (A William R. Cox Hardboiled Thriller) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings