The great train robbery
By: by Michael Crichton.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Knopf: distributed by Random House
Published: 1975
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
Subjects: Train robberies -- Fiction
Description: In teeming Victorian London, where lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side, Edward Pierce charms the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of the 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 making the extraordinary robbery aboard the pride of England's industrial era, the mighty steam locomotive? Based on fact, as lively as legend, and studded with all the suspense and style of a modern fiction master, here is a classic caper novel set a decade before the age of dynamite--yet nonetheless explosive ...