The writer and director Michael Crichton produced his novel "The Great Train Robbery" in 1975; his introduction reads "The Great Train Robbery was not only shocking and appalling, but also 'daring', 'audacious' and 'masterful'." A subsequent feature film based on the novel, "The First Great Train Robbery", presents a highly fictionalised version of the event, portraying Pierce (played by Sean Connery), as a gentleman master criminal who eventually escapes. The robbery also featured as one of the themes in the mystery novel "Kept" by D. J. Taylor.