Great Train Robbery (1963) Head of the Buckinghamshire Crime Investigation Department (CID) was born on 29 September 1909 and died on 28 November 2005, aged 96 years. He retired on the last day of the trial after the verdicts were handed down (at the then compulsory retirement age of 55). This allowed him (with Ronald Payne of "The Sunday Telegraph", who was involved in the paper's coverage of the case) to be the first of the investigators to write a book "The Train Robbers" on the robbery investigation in 1964. In the book he expressed some frustration with the Flying Squad although he mostly
Great Gold Robbery on from 1855, Michael Robbins wrote a detailed feature about this incident called "The Great South-Eastern Bullion Robbery" in "The Railway Magazine" May 1955 issue. Michael Crichton's novel "The Great Train Robbery" and subsequent feature film presents a highly fictionalised version of the event, portraying Pierce (played by Sean Connery), as a gentleman master criminal who eventually escapes. The true story of the robbery can be found in the book by David C. Hanrahan: "The First Great Train Robbery". The robbery also featured as one theme in the Victorian mystery novel entitled "Kept", written by D.J. Taylor; however in this