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082 0 0 _aFic C86g 1976
100 1 _aCrichton, Michael.
245 1 4 _aThe great train robbery /
_cMichael Crichton.
260 _aNew York :
_bBantam Books,
_cc1976.
300 _a300 p.
520 _aIn 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 ...
526 _aFICTION
650 0 _a Train robberies--Fiction.
650 0 _aOutlaws -- Fiction.
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