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Description edit
Lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side in Victorian London -- and Edward Pierce easily navigates both worlds. Rich, handsome, and ingenious, he charms the city's most prominent citizens even as he plots the crime of his century -- the daring theft of a fortune in gold. But... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Edward Pierce: The brains
- Agar: This "screwsman" or specialist in picklocking and keys is a key character in the novel and responsible for much of Pierce's dirty work.
- Barlow: The Muscle
- Mr. Harranby: Add a description of this character.
- Burgess
- Mr. Henry Fowler
- Elizabeth Trent
- Dalby
- Johnson
- Chokee Bill
- Madam
- Mcpherson
- Teddy Burke
- Miss Miriam
- Mr. Chubb
- Taggert
- Williams
- John Simms
- Jimmy
- Mayfair
- Miss Lawson
- Henson
- Heel Jack
First Sentence edit
Forty minutes out of London, passing through the rolling green fields and cherry orchards of Kent, the morning train of the South Eastern Railway attained its maximum speed of fifty-four miles an hour.
Table of Contents edit
Introduction (xi)
PART I: Preparations (pg 1)
PART II: The Keys (pg 89)
PART III: Delays and Difficulties (pg 147)
PART IV: The Great Train Robbery (pg 221)
PART V: Arrest and Trial (pg 249)
Series & Lists edit
This is book 8 of 10 in Publishers Weekly Bestselling Novels In 1975. (authoritative list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Michael Crichton (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Arrow Books Limited
Country: United Kingdom
Publication Date: 1975
ISBN: 0 09 948241 X
Page Count: 281
Publisher: Arrow Books Limited
Country: United Kingdom
Publication Date: 1975
ISBN: 0 09 948241 X
Page Count: 281
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: PZ4.C9178 Gr PS3553.R48
- Dewey: 813.54
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