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The Great Train Robbery

Author : Michael Crichton
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307816443
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Great Train Robbery written by Michael Crichton and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-05-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Jurassic Park comes classic historical thriller about Victorian London’s most notorious gold heist. London, 1855, when lavish wealth and appalling poverty exist side by side, one mysterious man navigates both worlds with perfect ease. Edward Pierce preys on the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of his century. Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could mastermind the extraordinary robbery aboard the pride of England’s industrial era, the mighty steam locomotive? 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…

Train Heists

Author : Kenny Abdo
Publisher : ABDO
ISBN 13 : 1098286456
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Train Heists written by Kenny Abdo and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title focuses on train heists and details the most daring ones through history, the crews that pulled them off, and the impact they had on the victims and world. This hi-lo title is complete with vibrant photographs, simple text, glossary, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Fly! is an imprint of Abdo Zoom, a division of ABDO.

The Old West's Infamous Train Robbers and Their Historic Heists

Author : W.C. Jameson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493066633
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Book Synopsis The Old West's Infamous Train Robbers and Their Historic Heists by : W.C. Jameson

Download or read book The Old West's Infamous Train Robbers and Their Historic Heists written by W.C. Jameson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-07-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What sort of person undertakes to rob a multi-ton train surging down a set of rails at high speed? For the Old West’s most famous outlaws, including Jesse James, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the Dalton Gang, and Black Jack Ketchum, it was as much about the thrill of the crime as the riches to be won, thumbing their noses at the authorities, and getting away with their crimes more often than not. These men, and at least one woman, were dare devils, rule breakers, adventurers, and rebels. In addition to their train robberies, they led colorful, dramatic, and dangerous lives. The Old West's Infamous Train Robbers and Their Historic Heists profiles sixteen noted train robbers (or train robbing gangs) along with the details of each their forty-seven hold-ups. The mechanics of each of their train robberies—planning, execution, and escape—are dissected and discussed. Pertinent background information relating to each outlaw/gang is included as well as what became of them following their train-robbery days.

Ohio Heists: Historic Bank Holdups, Train Robberies, Jewel Stings and More

Author : Jane Ann Turzillo
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467145564
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Ohio Heists: Historic Bank Holdups, Train Robberies, Jewel Stings and More written by Jane Ann Turzillo and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ohio history overflows with tales of enterprising thieves. Vault teller Ted Conrad walked out of Society National Bank carrying a paper sack containing a fifth of Canadian Club, a carton of Marlboros and $215,000 cash. He was never seen again. Known as one of the most successful jewel thieves in the world, Bill Mason stole comedian Phyllis Diller's precious gems not once, but twice. He also stole $100,000 from the Cleveland mob. Mild-mannered Kenyon College library employee David Breithaupt walked off with $50,000 worth of rare books and documents from the college. John Dillinger hit banks all over Ohio, and Alvin Karpis robbed a train in Garrettsville and a mail truck in Warren. Jane Ann Turzillo writes of these and other notable heists and perpetrators.

The Great Train Robbery: The Daring Heist That Shocked Victorian England

Author : ANONYMOUS
Publisher : THE PUBLISHER
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Train Robbery: The Daring Heist That Shocked Victorian England written by ANONYMOUS and published by THE PUBLISHER. This book was released on 2024-02-27 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Train Robbery is a captivating account of the infamous heist that took place in Victorian England. This gripping true story delves into the audacious plan, meticulous execution, and shocking aftermath of one of the most daring crimes of the era. Set in the 19th century, the book explores the events leading up to the robbery, involving secret meetings, meticulous planning, and the assembly of a skilled crew. It then details the night of the heist itself, with the robbery in motion and the daring getaway that followed. As the police investigation unfolds, false leads and dead-ends complicate the pursuit of the culprits. The ensuing media frenzy and intense public interest add further complexity to the case. Mysterious identities, possible suspects, and underground connections create an air of intrigue and suspense. The book also examines the impact of the robbery on public opinion, the consequences for the railway company, and the enduring cultural legacy and folklore that emerged from the event. The unsolved mysteries surrounding the missing loot, the fate of the gang members, and conspiracy theories are explored, leading to the dramatic trial and verdict. With the revelation of new evidence and the unmasking of the mastermind, the line between myth and reality is blurred. The book concludes by examining the lasting impact of the heist on crime history, its influence on literature, music, and art, and the enduring fascination that persists to this day. Throughout the retrospective investigation, persistent unanswered questions and puzzling enigmas keep readers engaged, highlighting the enduring mysteries that continue to captivate our imagination.

The Last Train Robber

Author : W.C. Jameson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493046098
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Last Train Robber written by W.C. Jameson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most colorful parts of American History is the time of train robberies and the daring outlaws who undertook them in the period covering from just after the Civil War to 1924. For decades, the railroads were the principal transporters of payrolls, gold and silver, bonds, and passengers who often carried large sums of money as well as valuable jewelry. For the creative outlaw, trains became an obvious target for robbery. Willis Newton has never enjoyed the recognition and fame of the better known train robbing outlaws such as Frank and Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, the Daltons, and the Doolins, but he was the most prolific and successful train robber in the history of North America. Newton stole more money from the railroads than all of the others put together. During his lifetime, Newton robbed six trains and an estimated eighty banks, pulled off the greatest train robbery ever, netting $3,000,000, yet remains virtually unknown. So unknown was he that, despite all of his success as a robber, he was rarely identified as a suspect. Following his greatest heist, Newton and his gang member, composed of his brothers, were arrested, tried, convicted, and sent to serve long terms at Leavenworth Prison. When they were granted early release for good behavior, they lost no time in returning to robbing banks. Willis Newton’s life and times as America’s greatest, and last, train robber has been gleaned and developed from extensive interviews he granted during the 1970s when he was in his eighties. In addition, newspaper reports of his numerous train and bank robberies have been obtained and researched for precise details of robberies and pursuit.

Southwest Train Robberies

Author : Doug Hocking
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493071114
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Southwest Train Robberies written by Doug Hocking and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-05-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1854, the United States acquired the roughly 30,000-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico from Mexico as part of the Gadsden Purchase. This new Southern Corridor was ideal for train routes from Texas to California, and soon tracks were laid for the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe rail lines. Shipping goods by train was more efficient, and for desperate outlaws and opportunistic lawmen, robbing trains was high-risk, high-reward. The Southern Corridor was the location of sixteen train robberies between 1883 and 1922. It was also the homebase of cowboy-turned-outlaw Black Jack Ketchum’s High Five Gang. Most of these desperadoes rode the rails to Arizona’s Cochise County on the US-Mexico border where locals and lawmen alike hid them from discovery. Both Wyatt Earp and Texas John Slaughter tried to clean them out, but it took the Arizona Rangers to finish the job. It was a time and place where posses were as likely to get arrested as the bandits. Some of the Rangers and some of Slaughter’s deputies were train robbers. When rewards were offered there were often so many claimants that only the lawyers came out ahead. Southwest Train Robberies chronicles the train heists throughout the region at the turn of the twentieth century, and the robbers who pulled off these train jobs with daring, deceit, and plain dumb luck! Many of these blundering outlaws escaped capture by baffling law enforcement. One outlaw crew had their own caboose, Number 44, and the railroad shipped them back and forth between Tucson and El Paso while they scouted locations. Legend says one gang disappeared into Colossal Cave to split the loot leaving the posse out front while they divided the cash and escaped out another entrance. The antics of these outlaws inspired Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid to blow up an express car and to run out guns blazing into the fire of a company of soldiers.

A Study Guide for Michael Crichton's "The Great Train Robbery"

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Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1410347362
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book A Study Guide for Michael Crichton's "The Great Train Robbery" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale Cengage Learning. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Michael Crichton's "The Great Train Robbery," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

Texas Train Robberies

Author : W.C. Jameson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493028669
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Texas Train Robberies written by W.C. Jameson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales from the Days of the Untamed West Not only are these train robberies fascinating and daring, many of them are associated with some of the foremost outlaws of the day—colorful personalities including Black Jack Ketchum, Sam Bass, Rube and Jim Burrow, the Doolin Gang, Mexican raiders, and more.

The Great Train Robbery

Author : Nick Russell-Pavier
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 0297864408
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (978 download)

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Download or read book The Great Train Robbery written by Nick Russell-Pavier and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Definitive account of the famous 1963 Great Train Robbery - and its aftermath. In the early hours of Thursday 8th August 1963 at rural Cheddington in Buckinghamshire, £2.6 million (£50 million today) in unmarked £5, £1 and 10-shilling notes was stolen from the Glasgow to London nightmail train in a daring and brilliantly executed operation lasting just 46 minutes. Quickly dubbed the crime of the century, it has captured the imagination of the public and the world's media for 50 years, taking its place in British folklore and giving birth to the myths of The Great Train Robbery. 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'. It is also the story of ruthless policemen, determined to hunt the robbers down and to make sure nobody slipped through the net, not even the innocent. It is the story of an Establishment under siege, and of one mistake which cost the robbers 307 years in prison. Fifty years later, here is the story set out in full for the first time, a true-life crime thriller, and also a vivid slice of British social history.

Investigating Thefts and Heists

Author : Alex Woolf
Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN 13 : 9781403448330
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (483 download)

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Download or read book Investigating Thefts and Heists written by Alex Woolf and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2004 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses some famous robbery cases and describes how these cases were solved using forensic science.

Notorious Kansas Bank Heists: Gunslingers to Gangsters

Author : Rod Beemer
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1626198357
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (261 download)

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Book Synopsis Notorious Kansas Bank Heists: Gunslingers to Gangsters by : Rod Beemer

Download or read book Notorious Kansas Bank Heists: Gunslingers to Gangsters written by Rod Beemer and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bank robbers wreaked havoc in the Sunflower State. After robbing the Chautauqua State Bank in 1911, outlaw Elmer McCurdy was killed by lawmen but wasn't buried for sixty-six years. His afterlife can be described only as bizarre. Belle Starr's nephew Henry Starr claimed to have robbed twenty-one banks. The Dalton gang failed in their attempt to rob two banks simultaneously, but others accomplished this in Waterville in 1911. Nearly four thousand known vigilantes patrolled the Sunflower State during the 1920s and 1930s to combat the criminal menace. One group even had an airplane with a .50-caliber machine gun. Join author Rod Beemer for a wild ride into Kansas's tumultuous bank heist history"--

Heists

Author : C M Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1629206156
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (292 download)

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Download or read book Heists written by C M Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most interesting things about crime-fighting is studying the crime itself. In Heists, part of Full Tilt's Origins: Whodunnit series, students will examine high-stakes theft through the history of heists involving cash, banks, art, and hostages.

Cash and Jewel Heists

Author : C.M. Johnson
Publisher : Triangle Interactive, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1684442222
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (844 download)

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Download or read book Cash and Jewel Heists written by C.M. Johnson and published by Triangle Interactive, Inc. . This book was released on 2017-12-13 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read Along or Enhanced eBook: Each Origins: Whodunnit: Heists eShort is a single chapter from the full Origins: Whodunnit: Heists title, packaged as a mini eBook. Origins: Whodunnit: Heists eShorts include Bank Heists, Art Heists, Heists and Hostages, and Cash and Jewel Heists.

Daring Heists

Author : Tom McCarthy
Publisher : Nomad Press
ISBN 13 : 1619305321
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book Daring Heists written by Tom McCarthy and published by Nomad Press. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you visit the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts, you might be surprised to see frames without any paintings in them. This isn’t a mistake—museum officials hope to someday return the artwork that was stolen from the museum to these frames. In the early morning hours after St. Patrick’s Day in 1990, a guard at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Art Museum was tricked into allowing a pair of thieves disguised as police officers to enter the building. The thieves used duct tape to secure the two guards on duty in the basement while they stole 13 pieces of art. The art, and the thieves, have never been recovered. The famous tale of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum art heist, the first of five stories in Daring Heists: Real Tales of Sensational Robberies and Robbers, introduces readers to the mystery and suspense of interesting crimes. Other topics discussed in the book include the stories of famous robbers D.B. Cooper and Marm Mandelbaum, the Great Train Robbery of 1963, and the Christmas Eve art theft at the Mexico City Museum in 1985. Daring Heists is the third book in a new series called Mystery & Mayhem, which features true tales that whet kids’ appetites for history by engaging them in genres with proven track records—mystery and adventure. History is made of near misses, unexplained disappearances, unsolved mysteries, and bizarre events that are almost too weird to be true—almost! The Mystery & Mayhem series delves into these tidbits of history to provide kids with a jumping off point into a lifelong habit of appreciating history. Each of the five true tales told within Daring Heists is paired with a map, as well as fun facts about the setting, industry, and time period. A glossary and resources page provide the opportunity to practice using essential academic tools. These nonfiction narratives use clear, concise language with compelling plots that both avid and reluctant readers will be drawn to.

Ballad of the Whiskey Robber

Author : Julian Rubinstein
Publisher : Back Bay Books
ISBN 13 : 0316028282
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Ballad of the Whiskey Robber written by Julian Rubinstein and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2007-09-03 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-wining and "outrageously entertaining" true crime story (San Francisco Chronicle) about the professional hockey player-turned-bank robber whose bizarre and audacious crime spree galvanized Hungary in the decade after the fall of the Iron Curtain. During the 1990s, while playing for the biggest hockey team in Budapest, Attila Ambrus took up bank robbery to make ends meet. Arrayed against him was perhaps the most incompetent team of crime investigators the Eastern Bloc had ever seen: a robbery chief who had learned how to be a detective by watching dubbed Columbo episodes; a forensics man who wore top hat and tails on the job; and a driver so inept he was known only by a Hungarian word that translates to Mound of Ass-Head. Ballad of the Whiskey Robber is the completely bizarre and hysterical story of the crime spree that made a nobody into a somebody, and told a forlorn nation that sometimes the brightest stars come from the blackest holes. Like The Professor and the Madman and The Orchid Thief, Julian Rubinstein's bizarre crime story is so odd and so wicked that it is completely irresistible. "A whiz-bang read...Hilarious and oddly touching...Rubinstein writes in a guns-ablazing style that perfectly fits the whiskey robber's tale." --Salon

True Crime and Punishment: Heists

Author : Joseph Cummins
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 145962095X
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book True Crime and Punishment: Heists written by Joseph Cummins and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of eighteen of the world's most audacious robberies - tales of ransom, revenge and old fashioned stick-ups.