Lew Archer The Moving Target, Book 1, (Paperback)

from jastbrown

At this point, I have only read the first eight books (in order) of this Lew Archer series. It feels to me as though he learned how to write an exceptional mystery novel from Raymond Chandler. No crime there.. Chandler, by the end was as good as they get! Macdonald seemed to be feeling his way a ...

from jastbrown

At this point, I have only read the first eight books (in order) of this Lew Archer series. It feels to me as though he learned how to write an exceptional mystery novel from Raymond Chandler. No crime there.. Chandler, by the end was as good as they get! Macdonald seemed to be feeling his way a ...

from brettjames

This is the book that introduces Lew Archer, Ross MacDonald's long running private detective series. I can't tell you how many times I pull the book off the shelf and read the first page to someone. It's hard to compete in the world of hard-boiled private detectives, but MacDonald not only held h...

from datrappert

Could easily be a lost Chandler novel, but MacDonald doesn't write as well, although he certainly tries. His plotting is a lot tighter than Chandler's, but perhaps that works against the overall effectiveness of the story. Chandler writes so well that it doesn't matter if the story makes sense or...

from wildbill

This is the first volume in Ross MacDonald's Lew Archer series. I have read a number of the later books in the series and Lew Archer doesn't change very much. This book does provide some background for Archer and one of the characters is an old friend of his. Archer says he does a lot of divorce ...