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Author Montville, Leigh.

Title The mysterious Montague : a true tale of Hollywood, golf, and armed robbery / Leigh Montville.

Publication Info. New York : Doubleday, [2008]
©2008

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Location Call No. Status
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  B MONTAGUE, JOHN    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  796.352 MONTVILLE    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xiii, 303 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [301]-303).
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.
Subject Montague, John, 1903-1972.
Golfers -- California -- Los Angeles -- Biography.
Criminals -- New York (State) -- Biography.
ISBN 9780385520331
0385520336
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