Great Train Robbery (1963) and included 613 exhibits and 240 witnesses. The jury retired to the Grange Youth Centre in Aylesbury to consider their verdict. On 11 February 1964, there was a sensation when John Daly was found to have no case to answer. His counsel, Mr Raeburn QC, claimed that the evidence against his client was limited to his fingerprints being on the Monopoly set found at Leatherslade Farm and the fact that he went underground after the robbery. Raeburn went on to say that Daly had played the Monopoly game with his brother-in-law Bruce Reynolds earlier in 1963, and that he had
The Great Train Robbery (novel) did not want to be constrained by what actually happened. The true story of the robbery can be found David C. Hanrahan's book "The First Great Train Robbery". The "New York Times" called it "Mr Crichton's best thriller to date". The "Los Angeles Times" described it as "marvellous fun". The book was one of the biggest best selling novels in the US in 1975. Three audiobook versions have been released: The novel was later made into a 1979 film entitled "The First Great Train Robbery" directed by Crichton starring Sean Connery as Pierce, Donald Sutherland as Agar and Lesley-Anne Down