The Great Train Robbery
Michael Crichton
Knopf (1975)
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#2983
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Crime - Fiction
Criminals, Great Britain, Train Robberies, Train Robberies - Fiction, Train Robberies/ Fiction
Hardcover 9780394494012
English
"A nineteenth-century version of THE STING...Crichton fascinates us." THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 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.... From the Paperback edition.
Product Details
LoC Classification PZ4 .C9178
LoC Control Number 74025422
Dewey 813.54
Cover Price $35.00
No. of Pages 266
Height x Width 8.7 x 5.9  inch
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