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The Moving Target is a 1949 mystery novel by American writer Ross Macdonald, who at this point used the name "John Macdonald" after his father, John Macdonald Millar. It is the first of his books to feature the detective Lew Archer. Archer is hired by the dispassionate wife of an eccentric oil tycoon who has gone missing. Archer must dig through a strange cast of characters, finding crime after crime before he can get to the job he was hired to do. For the book, Macdonald created the fictional city of Santa Teresa, a version of Santa Barbara, California.The novel became the basis for the 1966 Paul Newman film Harper, thanks in no small part to screenwriter William Goldman.