Crang

The Crang series is a series of highly renowned mystery books written by one of noteworthy Canadian authors named Jack Batten. It is based on the themes of murder, mayhem, and mystery. In all, there are 6 books in this mystery series, which were released between the years 1987 and 2016. Author Batten has introduced the chief protagonist in all the books of this series in the role of Crang. He is described as a criminal lawyer, who has many notorious criminals as his clients. Crang loves jazz music, Polish vodka, old English movies, and his beloved girlfriend Annie, and his convertible Volkswagen car. However, he does not wish to have them in that order. Crang lives in Upper Canada and is well known as a wise cracking WASP, having a moral code that hardly owes anything to the Upper Canada Law Society. In addition to being a famous criminal lawyer, he is also very quick with his fists and lips. It is said about Crang that he is able to tell fish forks from brass knuckle pairs, he wishes to. The office of Crang is based on the second floor of a Queen Street building in Toronto. Most of the clients who visit him in his office are street punks, scam artists of small times, robbers, etc. All of them are usually guilty and Crang knows it very well. He tends to like it in that sense. And when he goes on to get them off the charges with the help of his expert skills as a lawyer, they become very grateful to him and pay well too.