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Sign up todayThe Moving Target
The Lew Archer Series: Book #1
Narrator
Grover Gardner
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Length
6 hours 50 minutes
Language
English
Like many Southern California millionaires, Ralph Sampson keeps odd company. There’s the sun-worshiping holy man whom Sampson once gave his very own mountain and the fading actress with sidelines in astrology and S&M. Now, one of Sampson’s friends may have arranged his kidnapping.
As private eye Lew Archer follows the clues from the canyon sanctuaries of the mega–rich to jazz joints where you can get beaten up between sets, The Moving Target blends sex, greed, misdirected love, and family hatred into an explosive crime novel.
Ross Macdonald (1915–1983) was the pen name of Kenneth Millar. For over twenty years he lived in Santa Barbara and wrote mystery novels about the fascinating and changing society of his native state. He is widely credited with elevating the detective novel to the level of literature with his compactly written tales of murder and despair. His works have received awards from the Mystery Writers of America and of Great Britain, and his book The Moving Target was made into the movie Harper in 1966. In 1982 he was awarded the Eye Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Private Eye Writers of America.
AudioFile named Alexander Adams one of the Best Voices of the Century and now includes him in their annual Golden Voices roundup of top narration talent. He has recorded over 500 audiobooks. To date he has won eighteen of AudioFile's coveted Earphone Awards and one Audie Award.
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Narrator:
Grover Gardner
ISBN:
9781481561396
Length:
6 hours 50 minutes
Language:
English
Publisher:
Blackstone Publishing
Publication date:
October 9, 2008
Edition:
Unabridged
Libro.fm rank:
#29,347 Overall
Genre rank:
#4,287 in Mystery & Thriller
Reviews
“This is hard-boiled detective writing at the top of its form.”
“Archer solves crimes with the instincts of a psychologist and the conscience of a priest, and the mid-twentieth century Southern California setting is a wonderful ride in the Wayback Machine.”
“One of the ‘Big Three’ in American hard-boiled detective fiction, with Chandler and Hammett.”
“Lew Archer was possibly the ultimate father figure and Ross Macdonald is probably still best read as a young man, preferably in a bus station at 1 a.m., with everything you own in a backpack, waiting for a bus to somewhere/anywhere else.”
“The greatest PI series ever written? Probably.”
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