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The mysterious Montague : a true tale of Hollywood, golf, and armed robbery / Leigh Montville.
Van Pelt Library GV964.M543 M66 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Montville, Leigh.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Montague, John, 1903-1972.
- Montague, John.
- Golfers--California--Los Angeles--Biography.
- Golfers.
- Criminals--New York (State)--Biography.
- Criminals.
- New York (State).
- California--Los Angeles.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 303 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Doubleday, [2008]
- Summary:
- John Montague was a boisterous enigma. He had a bagful of golf tricks, on and off the course. He could knock a bird off a wire from 170 yards, and when the big man arrived in Hollywood in the early 1930s, he quickly became a celebrity among celebrities. He played golf with everyone from Howard Hughes to Babe Ruth and his close friend Bing Crosby, whom he famously beat with only a rake, a shovel, and a bat. Yet strangely Montague never entered a professional tournament, and he never allowed his image to be captured on film. When a photographer snapped his picture with a telephoto lens, police in upstate New York recognized him as a fugitive wanted for armed robbery. As Montague was indicted, hordes of national media descended and turned a star-studded legal carnival into the most talked about trial of its day.--From publisher description.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [301]-303).
- ISBN:
- 9780385520331
- 0385520336
- OCLC:
- 173243740
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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