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The Moving Target Paperback - 1998

by Ross MacDonald


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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.

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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.

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  • Title The Moving Target
  • Author Ross MacDonald
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1998-03-03
  • ISBN 9780375701467 / 037570146X
  • Weight 0.48 lbs (0.22 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.97 x 5.18 x 0.54 in (20.24 x 13.16 x 1.37 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Detective and mystery stories, Private investigators - California
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97047422
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Library Journal, 05/15/1998, Page 121

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.
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