num_pages: 246
description: Like many Southern California millionaires, Ralph Sampson keeps odd company - there's the sun-worshipping holy man to whom Sampson once gave his very own mountain, and don't forget the fading actress with sidelines in astrology and S and M. Now one of Sampson's friends may have arranged his kidnapping.Lew Archer follows the clues from the canyon sanctuaries of the mega-rich to jazz joints where you get beaten up between sets.Welcome to the first Lew Archer, private investigator - a roving conscience who walks the treacherous frontier between criminal guilt and human sin. You are sure to find that Ross Macdonald's "The Moving Target" blends sex, greed, and family hatred into an explosively readable crime novel.
language: English
title: The Moving Target
titlecomplete: The Moving Target (Lew Archer, #1)
characters: The taxi starter, Lew Archer, A Mexican girl, The Deputy Sheriff, Miranda Sampson, Ollie (The Moving Target), Sim Kuntz, Morris Cramm, Mrs. Elaine Sampson, Albert Graves, Mrs. Kromberg and Felix, Eddie who drives a blue truck, Fay Estabrook, Walt Whitman (The Moving Target), Peter Colton, Dwight Troy, Kierkegaard (The Moving Target), Helene Chadwick (The Moving Target), Robert Louis Stevenson (The Moving Target), Alan Taggert, Humphreys, the D.A., Mrs. Goldsmith, Russell Hunt, Betty Fraley, Ralph Sampson, Mrs. Marcella Finch, Ruth Dickson and Lawrence Becker, Staff at the Valerio Hotel, Claude, a Los Angeles holy man, Utagawa Kuniyoshi (The Moving Target), The guy in the truck
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Classics, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Detective, Noir, Novels, Hard Boiled
ratings_count: 4276
places: Los Angeles, California, Southern California
series: Lew Archer
publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard