| 词条 | The Moving Target |
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| name = The Moving Target | title_orig = | translator = | image = File:TheMovingTarget.jpg | caption = First edition | author = Ross Macdonald | cover_artist = Bill English | country = United States | language = English | series = Lew Archer | genre = Mystery | publisher = Knopf | release_date = 1949 | media_type = Print (Hardcover, Paperback) | pages = 245 | isbn = | preceded_by = | followed_by = The Drowning Pool }} The Moving Target is a 1949 mystery novel by American writer Ross Macdonald, who at this point used the name "John Macdonald". This is the first Ross Macdonald novel to feature the character of Lew Archer, who would define the author's career. Lew Archer is hired by the dispassionate wife of an eccentric oil tycoon who has gone missing. Archer must dig through a strange cast of Los Angeles characters, finding crime after crime before he can get to the job he was hired to do. The novel became the basis for the 1966 Paul Newman film Harper, thanks in no small part to screenwriter William Goldman.[1] Ross Macdonald (Kenneth Millar) originally titled this book The Snatch. When the book was published, he chose the pseudonym John Macdonald after his father, John Macdonald Millar. It is believed he didn't want to use his own name as his wife, Margaret Millar, was already an established writer. Due this pen-name's similarity with the name of the writer John D. MacDonald, Millar later wrote as John Ross Macdonald and finally as Ross Macdonald. Santa TeresaIn this book, Macdonald created the fictional city of Santa Teresa, a version of Santa Barbara, California.[2] In the 1980s, Santa Teresa became home to Kinsey Millhone, a fictional female private investigator created by Sue Grafton.[3] Millhone is the protagonist of Grafton's "alphabet mysteries" series of novels.[4][5] Grafton chose the setting as a tribute to Macdonald.[6] Notes1. ^{{cite book |first=William |last=Goldman |authorlink=William Goldman |title=Adventures in the Screen Trade |publisher=Warner Books |isbn=0-446-51273-7 |year=1983 |pages=177–179}} {{Ross Macdonald}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Moving Target, The}}{{1940s-crime-novel-stub}}{{Canada-novel-stub}}2. ^{{cite book |last=Priestman |first=Martin |title=The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction |publisher=Cambridge University Press |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BDGfEOYgStIC&pg=PA109&dq=Santa+Teresa,++macdonald+Lew+Archer.&num=100&sig=zmmb6nnDU4Usxi-AjbrlKh_oStQ |year=2003}} 3. ^{{cite news |work=Los Angeles Times |title=Mystery Town: Whodunit author Sue Grafton lives in Santa Barbara and sets her tales in Santa Teresa |date=1991-05-23 |first=Todd |last=Everett |page=J15}} 4. ^{{cite news |work=Los Angeles Times Magazine |title=G IS FOR GRAFTON Instead of Killing Her Ex-Husband, Sue Grafton Created a Smart-Mouthed, Hard-Boiled (and Incidentally Female) Detective Named Kinsey Millhone |date=1990-02-18 |first=Ellen |last=Hawkes |page=20}} 5. ^{{cite book |author=Natalie Hevener Kaufman, Carol McGinnis Kay |title="G" Is for Grafton: The World of Kinsey Millhone |publisher=Henry Holt and Company |isbn=0-8050-5446-4 |edition=Hardcover |year=1997}} 6. ^{{cite news |url=http://www.booksense.com/people/archive/nolantom.jsp |title=Ross Macdonald |first=Tom |last=Nolan |work=BookSense |accessdate=2008-06-01 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080518054159/http://www.booksense.com/people/archive/nolantom.jsp |archivedate=2008-05-18 |df= }} 7 : 1949 American novels|American novels adapted into films|Lew Archer (series)|Novels by Ross Macdonald|Alfred A. Knopf books|Novels set in California|Suspense novels |
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