The Great Train Robbery (novel)

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The Great Train Robbery
Original 1975 cover art
Author Michael Crichton
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Crime novel
Publisher Alfred A. Knopf
Released May 1975
Media Type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages 266 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN ISBN 0-394-49401-6 (first edition, hardback)

The Great Train Robbery is a bestselling 1975 novel written by Michael Crichton. Originally published in the USA by Alfred A. Knopf (then, a division of Random House), it is currently published by Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. It is the story of the Great Gold Robbery of 1855, a massive gold heist, which takes place on a train traveling through Victorian era England. The great bulk of the book takes place in London.

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The novel was later made into a 1979 film directed by Crichton.

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