The Great Train Robbery - Rilegato

Crichton, Michael

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ISBN 10: 0394494016 ISBN 13: 9780394494012

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1975

Riassunto

In 1855, mysterious and 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, and is brought to trial

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teenth-century version of THE STING...Crichton fascinates us."
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
In 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....
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The Great Train Robbery. A novel Jacket design by Paul Bacon. Prima edizione, seconda ristampa 8vo. pp. XVII - 266. . Ottimo (Fine). . First edition, second printing before publication. [Tartarus, 2007].

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• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1975
• ISBN 10: 0394494016
• ISBN 13: 9780394494012
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 266