In 1855, master criminal Edward Pierce plans and carries out, with three accomplices, the impossible robbery of the monthly London-to-Paris train carrying gold bullion for the British army in the Crimea.
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…
Ronnie Biggs, Buster Edwards and Bruce Reynolds became household names. But what really happened? This is the story of four talented villains who took the criminal world by storm, of the 'perfect crime'.
The great train robbery
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.
One of the most popular plays of the 1890s, "The Great Train Robbery" was billed as a "spectacular melodrama" with "living pictures of western life.
One of Crichton's classic thrillers--the "New York Times" bestseller which was the basis for the 1979 film adapted and directed by the author--is reissued with a new look.
A former Scotland Yard superintendent and a veteran Fleet Street crime reporter give an account of the daring 1963 robbery of $7 million from a Royal Mail train on its...
A new history of the most infamous crimes of the 1960s. Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the robbery, 8 August 2013.
All these and other great criminal cases are brought together in this book.
"A nineteenth-century version of THE STING...Crichton fascinates us."THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWIn teeming Victorian London, where lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side, Edward Pierce charms the...
"A nineteenth-century version of THE STING...Crichton fascinates us."THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWIn teeming Victorian London, where lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side, Edward Pierce charms the...