The Moving Target (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Kenneth Millar
- First Published: 1949
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Mystery and detective literature
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Crime or criminals, Twentieth century, West, U.S., Detectives, Greed, Kidnapping, Smuggling or smugglers, Aliens, illegal, Southern California
- Locales: Southern California
The Moving Target is a quickly paced mystery-adventure novel filled with chases, fights, and murders which Macdonald described as “a story clearly aspiring to be a movie,” which it became: Harper, starring Paul Newman, in 1966. His fourth novel, it is a landmark in his career, marking as it does the debut of Lew Archer, a Los Angeles private detective patterned after Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe, with whom Archer shares a sense of righteousness. Archer, however, is more introspective and realistic. Being the narrator, he becomes the moral center of the book.
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