Word: ventrees
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Joseph Ventre, a cheap little crook indicted with the dead gunman's widow, was not long in telling the police the whole story. He and a man named Pace had been living with Mrs. Coll. They had been supporting themselves by petty stickups until Mrs. Coll. accustomed to doughtier...
Mrs. Coll had not been married into the underworld for nothing. She resolutely refused to give any in formation, and when confronted with Ventre, classically cried: "So you squealed, you rat!"
First published eight years ago by Scribner, under the title Lige Mounts: Free Trapper, this commendable novel tells of the making of a frontiersman, rather than the life of one. Its distinction does not lie in the story, which is adequate but not unusual: Lige, aged 19 in 1822, is...