Copyright © 2011 by Jack Batten
Macmillan edition published September 1989
Seal edition published October 1990
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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Batten, Jack, 1932–
Straight no chaser : a Crang mystery / by Jack Batten.
First published: Toronto : Macmillan of Canada, 1989.
ISBN 978-0-88762-747-7
I. Title.
PS8553.A833S8 2011 C813'.54 C2010-908132-3
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