This first onmibus of novels by Ross Macdonald presents his famous detective, Lew Archer, in three stylish and explosive cases.
They take Archer and the reader through the upper levels and lower depths of Califrnia society, casting a sardonic eye on Hollywood and its outposts in Las Vegas and Palm Springs.
The The Moving Target (recently made into the hit movie Harper the disappearance of an oil millionaire with Hollywood connections touches off a series of violent crimes. In The Way Some People Die Lew Archer tracks down some missing persons, living and dead, on a trail that twists from Palm Springs to San Francisco. In The Barbarous Coast Archer's pursuit of a girl who Jackknifed too suddenly from sky diving to high living leads him to an ex-fighter with an unexplained movie contract, a bigtime gambler who died by his won knife, and finally to an answer he would rather not have known.
