num_pages: 329
description: In teeming Victorian London, where lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side, one mysterious man navigates both worlds with perfect ease. Rich, handsome, and ingenious, Edward Pierce charms the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of his century. Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could mastermind the daring theft of a fortune in gold? Who could predict the consequences of committing the extraordinary robbery aboard the pride of England's industrial era, the mighty steam locomotive? Based on fact, as lively as legend, and studd4d with all the suspense and style of Michael Crichton at his best, here is a classic caper novel set a decade before the age of dynamite--yet explosive nonetheless....
language: English
title: The Great Train Robbery
titlecomplete: The Great Train Robbery
characters: Edward Pierce
genres: Adventure, Classics, Historical, Mystery, Thriller, Historical Fiction, Audiobook, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 30711
places: United Kingdom, London, England
awards: awardedAt: 157795200000
name: California Book Award
category: Fiction (Silver)
publisher: Avon