The Moving TargetThe Moving Target introduced Lew Archer, a well known fictional detective featured in seventeen additional novels. The movie, Harper, starring Paul Newman as Lew Archer, was based on this book. . Kenneth Millar, whose primary pseudonym was Ross Macdonald, wrote this book as John Macdonald. Macdonald created the fictional city of Santa Teresa, a city modeled on Santa Barbara, California. He portrayed a city divided between an easy living rich class and