Jack Batten

A Crang Mystery

1 - Crang Plays the Ace (Apr-1987)
2 - Straight No Chaser (Jun-1989)
3 - Riviera Blues (1990)
4 - Blood Count (1991)

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  Crang Plays the Ace
  

  • Apr-1987
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  A Crang Mystery - 1
  

  “Like a fine wine, the [Crang] series -- and its protagonist -- have aged well.” -- The Toronto Star“Not to be missed.” -- The Globe and MailJack Batten's hard-boiled Crang series returns with this four-book bundle, including the late...

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  Straight No Chaser
  

  • Jun-1989
  • / Law Enforcement
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  A Crang Mystery - 2
  

  Classic Batten--on the rocks Jazz. Cocaine. Vietnamese triads. Dope-dealing yuppie lawyers. Jack Batten's got them all in his second mystery novel starring Crang, the unconventional criminal lawyer with a taste for straight vodka and a nose for troub...

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  Riviera Blues
  

  • 1990
  • / Law Enforcement
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  A Crang Mystery - 3
  

  Crang, the smart (and often smartass) criminal lawyer, finds himself embroiled in a mystery while on vacation on the French Riviera. Like all the criminal messes Crang has ever found himself caught up in, this one begins in perfect innocence. As Cran...

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  Blood Count
  

  • 1991
  • / Law Enforcement
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  A Crang Mystery - 4
  

  At a time when gay communities were hidden worlds, Crang needs to root out a killer and do his best to right a grave wrong. At the height of the AIDS crisis in the early nineties, a close friend of Crang's, Alex Corcoran, loses his partner, Ian, to t...

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  Keeper of the Flame
  

  • May-2016
  • / Private Investigator
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  When his popular hip-hop artist client is blackmailed, Crang stumbles on a porn operation and an unexpected case of murder.Crang is a smart-talking criminal lawyer who doesn’t mind chasing down unorthodox cases. That makes him just the guy to repre...

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  Booking in
  

  • Dec-2017
  • / Private Investigator
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  Mystery-solving criminal lawyer Crang returns to investigate the disappearance of two rare books.
  
  Fletcher Marshall is a Toronto antiquarian book dealer, internationally respected in the business. One night, someone blows the safe in his of...

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