The great train robbery
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Crime > England > London > Fiction. Train robberies > England > Fiction. London (England) > History > 19th century > Fiction. |
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Thrillers (Fiction) Action and adventure fiction. Fiction. |
- ISBN: 0804171289
- ISBN: 9780804171281
- Physical Description xvii, 266 pages
- Edition 1st Vintage Books ed.
- Publisher New York : Vintage Books, 2014.
- Copyright ©1975
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Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 18.95 |
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Summary
The Great Train Robbery : A Novel
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Jurassic Park comes classic historical thriller about Victorian London's most notorious gold heist. London, 1855, when lavish wealth and appalling poverty exist side by side, one mysterious man navigates both worlds with perfect ease. Edward Pierce preys on 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 extraordinary robbery aboard the pride of England's industrial era, the mighty steam locomotive? Based on fact, but studded with all the suspense and style of fiction, here is a classic historical thriller, set a decade before the age of dynamite--yet nonetheless explosive...