bootlegger's

It's about a bootlegger's driver whose 1925 Duesenberg race car is his one chance of escaping the Depression -- if he's willing to sacrifice everyone else he has ever loved.

Interview: Melissa Scott odysseyworkshop 2009

In the second scene, we see the book's central character, Pap Finn, tossing strips of meat into a blind bootlegger's cooking fire ...

Alchemy on the First Page 2007

(The sound was a little muddy, admittedly, and an annoying drunk person kept shouting "Rock 'n' roll!" into the bootlegger's microphone during the last verse, but if it was anger and pain she was after, then this was the one.)

Nick Hornby: Juliet, Naked: An Excerpt 2009

Which left the bootlegger's boy just one more roadblock to clear before becoming the third man (after Paul Brown and Johnson) to coach both college and pro championship teams.

Barry And His 'Boys 2008

In the novel (versus in reality), the social worker realizes the photos are the link both to her childhood on Long Island, the old Jay Gatsby estate (which has since become a swim and tennis club in the 80-plus years since the bootlegger's death), and a violent crime in northern Vermont with which the social worker is all too familiar.

Archive 2008-05-01 2008

In the novel (versus in reality), the social worker realizes the photos are the link both to her childhood on Long Island, the old Jay Gatsby estate (which has since become a swim and tennis club in the 80-plus years since the bootlegger's death), and a violent crime in northern Vermont with which the social worker is all too familiar.

Interview with Chris Bohjalian, Author of Skeletons at the Feast 2008

MacNeice had the man brought up to the interrogation room, where his own nasty little headache and the prisoner's nasty little hangover combined to provide the bootlegger's address.

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2003

MacNeice had the man brought up to the interrogation room, where his own nasty little headache and the prisoner's nasty little hangover combined to provide the bootlegger's address.

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2003

There was a bootlegger's truck in the corral, and rabbits packed like snow in the hutch.

Stallion Gate Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942- 1986

Even a bootlegger's got to speak good language nowadays, associating with the best people the way he does.

Keeper of the Keys Biggers, Earl Derr, 1884-1933 1932