The Great Train Robbery and other railway crimes
By: Mike Holgate
Publisher: Halsgrove
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Wellington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9780857042026
Subjects: Train robberies; History; Crime
Description: The year 2013 marks the 50th anniversary of a train robbery considered the greatest crime of the twentieth century, no known to all as The Great Train Robbery. It is also the 125th anniversary of the Whitechapel Murders and the 175th anniversary of the Coronation of Queen Victoria who narrowly missed murder at the hands of the Railway Assassin. All these and other great criminal cases are brought together in this new book.
Notes: Includes bibliography.
Table of contents: title: Great train robberies; title: Crime on the Royal Road; title: First class railway murders.