Jack Batten, after a brief and unhappy career as a lawyer, has been a very happy writer for many years. The author of forty books, Batten has also reviewed jazz for the Globe and Mail and, for twenty-five years, movies on CBC Radio. He currently writes the bi-weekly ""Whodunit"" column in the Toronto Star. He lives in Toronto.
Crang is a crime-solving lawyer with a large ego, mouth, and a propensity for unorthodox cases. - The Sun Times