The Great Train Robbery

Author : Michael Crichton
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307816443
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Train Robbery written by Michael Crichton and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-05-14 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes an enthralling novel 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…

Author : David C. Hanrahan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780709090403
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First Great Train Robbery written by David C. Hanrahan and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May 1855, the citizens of Victorian Great Britain were shocked to read in their morning edition of The Times that 12,000 pounds worth of gold bars and other valuables had been stolen from a train travelling between London and Paris--without explosives or violence! Who did it and how was a great mystery which was finally solved.

Author : Tim Coates
Publisher : Tim Coates Books
ISBN 13 : 9781843810223
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great British Train Robbery, 1963 written by Tim Coates and published by Tim Coates Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theft of 120 mailbags from a travelling post office has been dubbed the crime of the century. Reproduced here are extracts from the report of Her Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary, which was submitted to the Home Office in 1964. At that time the investigation was still not complete: much of the #2.6 million had not been recovered and at least three of the robbers were still at large. A brief postscript covers the later arrest and sentencing of Buster Edwards, Bruce Reynolds and James White - and the re-arrest of Ronnie Biggs in 2001, 36 years after his escape from prison.

Author : Michael Crichton
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345539001
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disclosure written by Michael Crichton and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes an electrifying thriller in which a shocking accusation of sexual harassment triggers a gripping psychological game of cat and mouse and threatens to derail a brilliant career. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A fresh and provocative story.”—People An up-and-coming executive at the computer firm DigiCom, Tom Sanders is a man whose corporate future is certain. But after a closed-door meeting with his new boss—a woman who is his former lover and has been promoted to the position he expected to have—Sanders finds himself caught in a nightmarish web of deceit in which he is branded the villain. As Sanders scrambles to defend himself, he uncovers an electronic trail into the company’s secrets—and begins to grasp that a cynical and manipulative scheme has been devised to bring him down. “Crichton writes superbly. . . . The excitement rises with each page.”—Chicago Tribune “A heart-stop story running on several tracks at once. Disclosure is up to [Crichton’s] usual locomotive speed.”—The Boston Globe “Expertly crafted, ingenious and absorbing.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer

Author : Brenda Haugen
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 0756543606
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Train Robbery written by Brenda Haugen and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2011 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shout and we'll kill you! Threats and violence were part of the Great Train Robbery of 1963. Its loot was, at that time, the largest amount of cash ever stolen in Britain. The Crime of the Century seemed to be perfectly planned and executed, but police aimed to show that they'd find those involved and bring them to justice. Would they succeed or would the daring criminals involved in the crime escape with the cash?

Author : R. Michael Wilson
Publisher : Two Dot Books
ISBN 13 : 9780762741502
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Train Robberies of the Old West written by R. Michael Wilson and published by Two Dot Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1800s trains carried the nation's wealth throughout the east, but no one thought to rob a speeding train until 1866. In 1870 the first western train was robbed in Nevada and within hours a second train was robbed. Railroads made every alteration to their cars and changed every procedure they could imagine to thwart the robbers, but to no avail. Robbing trains became epidemic over the next five decades, even when the legislatures made train robbery a capital crime. A few of the hundreds of train robberies stand out as thrilling and dangerous affairs, and the greatest of these (15-20) are included in this book.

Author : Andrew Cook
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752492225
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Train Robbery written by Andrew Cook and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Train Robbery of 1963 is one of the most infamous crimes in British history. The bulk of the money stolen (equivalent to over £40 million today) has never been recovered, and there has not been a single year since 1963 when one aspect of the crime or its participants has not been featured in the media. Despite the wealth and extent of this coverage, a host of questions have remained unanswered: Who was behind the robbery? Was it an inside job? And who got away with the crime of the century? Fifty years of selective falsehood and fantasy has obscured the reality of the story behind the robbery. The fact that a considerable number of the original investigation and prosecution files on those involved and alleged to have been involved were closed, in many cases until 2045, has only served to muddy the waters still further. Now, through Freedom of Information requests and the exclusive opening of many of these files, Andrew Cook reveals a new picture of the crime and its investigation that, at last, provides answers to many of these questions.

Author : Gordon Goody
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781908479815
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Rob a Train written by Gordon Goody and published by . This book was released on 2014-11-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gordon Goody is the mystery man of the Great Train Robbery, the most notorious theft in British history. Regarded by his partners as tough and fearless, he has kept his silence for five decades. Until now. Raised in rural Northern Ireland, Goody served as an army sergeant but chose a life of crime and became one of the most professional and prolific robbers in London. He and his gang were offered the job of a lifetime: details of a Glasgow to London mail train laden with cash, provided by The Ulsterman, whose identity Goody reveals for the first time.

Author : Michael Crichton
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0804171289
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Train Robbery written by Michael Crichton and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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…

Author : Justin VanRiper
Publisher : North Country Books
ISBN 13 : 9780970704405
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Adirondack Kids written by Justin VanRiper and published by North Country Books. This book was released on 2001-02-01 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Justin Robert is ten years old and likes computers, biking and peanut butter cups. But his passion is animals. When an uncommon pair of common loons takes up residence on Fourth Lake near the family camp, he will do anything he can to protect them.