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Book Description A nineteenth-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, one mysterious man navigates both worlds with perfect ease. Rich, handsome, and ingenious, Edward Pierce charms the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates a masterpiece of crime -- the most daring train robbery of the century. Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could...
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