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The Moving Target (Lew Archer Series #1) (Paperback)
$15.00
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Other Books in Series
This is book number 1 in the Lew Archer Series series.
- #2: The Drowning Pool (Lew Archer Series #2) (Paperback): $16.00
- #3: The Way Some People Die (Lew Archer Series #3) (Paperback): $15.95
- #4: The Ivory Grin (Lew Archer Series #4) (Paperback): $16.00
- #5: Find a Victim: A Lew Archer Novel (Lew Archer Series #5) (Paperback): $15.00
- #6: The Barbarous Coast (Lew Archer Series #6) (Paperback): $15.00
- #7: The Doomsters (Lew Archer Series #7) (Paperback): $15.00
- #8: The Galton Case: A Lew Archer Novel (Lew Archer Series #8) (Paperback): $14.95
- #9: The Wycherly Woman (Lew Archer Series #9) (Paperback): $15.95
- #10: The Zebra-Striped Hearse (Lew Archer Series #10) (Paperback): $15.95
- #11: The Chill (Lew Archer Series #11) (Paperback): $16.00
- #12: The Far Side of the Dollar (Lew Archer Series #12) (Paperback): $15.00
- #13: Black Money (Lew Archer Series #13) (Paperback): $15.00
- #14: The Instant Enemy (Lew Archer Series #14) (Paperback): $16.00
- #15: The Goodbye Look (Lew Archer Series #15) (Paperback): $15.00
- #16: The Underground Man: A Lew Archer Novel (Lew Archer Series #16) (Paperback): $16.00
- #17: The Archer Files: The Complete Short Stories of Lew Archer, Private Investigator (Lew Archer Series #17) (Paperback): $20.00
- #18: The Blue Hammer (Lew Archer Series #18) (Paperback): $16.00
Description
The first book in Ross Macdonald's acclaimed Lew Archer series introduces the detective who redefined the role of the American private eye and gave the crime novel a psychological depth and moral complexity only hinted at before.
Like many Southern California millionaires, Ralph Sampson keeps odd company. There's the sun-worshipping holy man whom Sampson once gave his very own mountain; the fading actress with sidelines in astrology and S&M. Now one of Sampson's friends may have arranged his kidnapping.
As Lew Archer follows the clues from the canyon sanctuaries of the megarich to jazz joints where you get beaten up between sets, The Moving Target blends sex, greed, and family hatred into an explosively readable crime novel.
About the Author
Ross Macdonald's real name was Kenneth Millar. Born near San Francisco in 1915 and raised in Ontario, Canada, Millar returned to the U.S. as a young man and published his first novel in 1944. He served as the president of the Mystery Writers of America and was awarded their Grand Master Award as well as the Mystery Writers of Great Britain's Gold Dagger Award. He died in 1983.
