num_pages: 184
description: 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&amp;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.
language: English
title: The Moving Target
titlecomplete: The Moving Target
characters: Eddie who drives a blue truck, Kierkegaard (The Moving Target), The guy in the truck, The Deputy Sheriff, Lew Archer, Russell Hunt, Albert Graves, Dwight Troy, Betty Fraley, Fay Estabrook, Ollie (The Moving Target), Miranda Sampson, Alan Taggert, Mrs. Elaine Sampson, Staff at the Valerio Hotel, Mrs. Marcella Finch, Mrs. Goldsmith, Peter Colton, Humphreys, the D.A., Walt Whitman (The Moving Target), Mrs. Kromberg and Felix, A Mexican girl, Ralph Sampson, Ruth Dickson and Lawrence Becker, Sim Kuntz, Robert Louis Stevenson (The Moving Target), Morris Cramm, Claude, a Los Angeles holy man, Utagawa Kuniyoshi (The Moving Target), The taxi starter, Helene Chadwick (The Moving Target)
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Noir, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Classics, Novels, Hard Boiled, Crime
ratings_count: 4278
places: Southern California, Los Angeles, California
series: Lew Archer
publisher: Allison & Busby