The First Great Train Robbery
- ISBN-10
- 0709090404
- ISBN-13
- 9780709090403
- Category
- Train robberies
- Pages
- 224
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011
- Publisher
- Robert Hale Limited
- Author
- David C. Hanrahan
Description
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.
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