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  • Crang Mysteries 6-Book Bundle

    Crang Plays the Ace / Straight No Chaser / Riviera Blues / and 3 more

    by Jack Batten ...
    Series series A Crang Mystery
    The smart-talking, wise-cracking, jazz-loving criminal lawyer has got a taste for straight vodka and a nose for trouble. No one could ever accuse Crang of being a superhero, but with his usual mixture of innate cool and naive enthusiasm he brings the villains to justice.This 6-book bundle includes:Crang Plays the Ace Crang Mystery #1Straight No Chaser Crang Mystery #2Riviera Blues Crang Mystery ... Read more

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Riviera Blues

    A Crang Mystery

    by Jack Batten ...
    Series Book 3 - A Crang Mystery
    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 Crang is leaving for a holiday on the French Riviera with his movie-critic girlfriend, Annie, his rich-as-Croesus former father-in-law appears to ask if he ... Read more

    $6.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Silent in an Evil Time

    The Brave War of Edith Cavell

    by Jack Batten ...
    Dutiful nurse, hospital matron, courageous resistance fighter, Edith Cavell was all of these. A British citizen, the forty-eight-year-old Cavell was matron of an institute for nurses in the suburbs of Brussels at the outbreak of World War I. Dedicated to the methods of Florence Nightingale, her intelligence and ferocious sense of duty had transformed the institute into a leading training center ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Crang Mysteries 4-Book Bundle

    Crang Plays the Ace / Straight No Chaser / Take Five / and 1 more

    by Jack Batten ...
    Series series A Crang Mystery
    “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 latest Crang mystery, 2016's Keeper of the Flame!Includes:Crang Plays the AceStraight No ChaserTake FiveKeeper of the Flame ... Read more

    $15.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Booking In

    A Crang Mystery

    by Jack Batten ...
    Series Book 7 - A Crang Mystery
    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 office and makes off with the contents, which include an infamous forged first edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese that is in ... Read more

    $6.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Keeper of the Flame

    A Crang Mystery

    by Jack Batten ...
    Series Book 6 - A Crang Mystery
    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 represent a famous hip-hop performer who’s on the wrong end of a blackmail scheme. It doesn’t strike Crang as a confounding case, but in no time, he finds ... Read more

    $6.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Blood Count

    A Crang Mystery

    by Jack Batten ...
    Series Book 4 - A Crang Mystery
    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 the disease. After Ian’s death, Crang is enlisted by Alex to find the man who infected Ian. Crang searches for the man to prevent Alex from getting ... Read more

    $6.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Man Who Ran Faster Than Everyone

    The Story of Tom Longboat

    by Jack Batten ...
    Tom Longboat was a hero. A member of the Onondaga Nation, he was born on the Six Nations reserve in Oshwegen, near Brantford, Ontario. Despite poverty, poor training, and prejudice, Longboat went on to become one of the world’s best runners. In 1907, at the height of his fame, he won the Boston Marathon and ran in the 1908 Olympic Marathon. Longboat was one of the best-known people of his day, and ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Oscar Peterson

    The Man and His Jazz

    by Jack Batten ...
    Called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, Oscar Peterson released over 200 recordings, won seven Grammy Awards, received the Order of Canada and is considered to have been one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time. This new biography from award-winning author Jack Batten, promises to tell Oscar Peterson's story in acomplete, compelling and sympathetic way. This is first ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Ross Mackay, The Saga of a Brilliant Criminal Lawyer

    And his big losses and bigger wins in court and in life

    by Jack Batten ...
    Series Book 6 - True Cases
    The two murder trials held in Toronto in the spring of 1962 only nineteen days apart made Canadian social and legal history. The accused man in each trial, one a pimp who stabbed to death a fellow pimp, the other a thief who killed a policeman in a shootout, were the last two men to be hanged in Canada. In personal terms, for a Toronto criminal lawyer named Ross Mackay, the trials represented just ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Audiobook

    Ross Mackay, The Saga of a Brilliant Criminal Lawyer

    by Jack Batten ...
    Narrated by Lorene Shyba ...
    Series Audiobook 6 - True Cases

    Unabridged

    9 hours 57 min

    Ross Mackay, The Saga of a Brilliant Criminal Lawyer is great fit for people who love Perry Mason’s courtroom drama and Better Call Saul’s criminal subculture. Two murder trials were held in Toronto in the spring of 1962, only nineteen days apart. The accused man in each trial, one a pimp accused of stabbing a fellow pimp to death, the other a thief who killed a policeman in a shootout, were the ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    A Foreign Affairs Mystery

    Series Book 2 - A Foreign Affairs Mystery
    In Moscow, the truth can be a dangerous commodity.Ottawa bureaucrat–turned-diplomat Charlie Hillier is back. Having barely survived his first posting in Havana, Charlie is eager to put what he learned there to good use. And it isn’t long before he's thrust into a fresh case — a technical writer from Toronto in a Moscow jail on dubious drug charges. Charlie has barely put a dent in the brick wall ... Read more

    $6.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus