The Moving Target: 1 (Lew Archer) - Softcover

Macdonald, Ross

Softcover

ISBN 10: 037570146X ISBN 13: 9780375701467

Publisher: Random House USA Inc, 1998

Synopsis

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 this title

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.

Synopsis:

Lew Archer confronts the most bizarre and dangerous characters that Los Angeles in the late 1940s has to offer in his hunt for a vanished oil tycoon.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House USA Inc
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 037570146X
• ISBN 13: 9780375701467
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256