Title: Moving Target - Ross MacDonald - book
Summary :
Adapted for the big screen in 1966 with an incredibly relaxed and humorous Paul Newman, Moving Target is one of the most famous novels in the Lew Archer cycle. A businessman disappears, a ransom demanded, here is our hero who sets out on the hunt, once again, in the sordid world of this Eden, both golden and Machiavellian, of "fifties" California. Once again, Ross Macdonald asserts himself as the spiritual son of Hammett and Chandler and Lew Archer the ruthless nephew of Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe.