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The great train robbery

Author: Michael Crichton
Publisher: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1975.
Edition/Format: Book : Fiction : Juvenile audience : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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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  Read more...
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Material Type: Fiction, Juvenile audience
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Michael Crichton
ISBN: 0394494016 9780394494012 0224011898 9780224011891
OCLC Number: 1175916
Description: xvii, 266 p. ; 22 cm.
Responsibility: by Michael Crichton.
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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 ...

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