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BOOKS



Novels

  • ''The Moving Target'' (1949)

  • '' The Drowning Pool '' (1950)

  • '' The Way Some People Die '' (1951)

  • ''The Ivory Grin'' (1952; AKA Marked for Murder)

  • ''Find a Victim'' (1954)

  • ''The Barbarous Coast'' (1956)

  • ''The Doomsters'' (1958)

  • ''The Galton Case'' (1959)

  • ''The Ferguson Affair'' (1960)

  • ''The Wycherly Woman'' (1961)

  • ''The Zebra-Striped Hearse'' (1962)

  • ''The Chill'' (1964)

  • ''The Far Side of the Dollar'' (1965)

  • ''Black Money'' (1966)

  • ''The Instant Enemy'' (1968)

  • ''The Goodbye Look'' (1969)

  • ''The Underground Man'' (1971)

  • ''Sleeping Beauty'' (1973)

  • ''The Blue Hamme''r (1976)



Short stories

  • "Find the Woman" (June 1946, EQMM)

  • "The Bearded Lady" (American Magazine, October 1948)

  • "The Imaginary Blonde" (February 1953, Manhunt; AKA Gone Girl)

  • "The Guilty Ones" (May 1953, Manhunt; AKA The Sinister Habit)

  • "The Beat-Up Sister" (October 1953, Manhunt; AKA The Suicide)

  • "Guilt-Edged Blonde" ( January 1954, Manhunt)

  • "Wild Goose Chase" (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July 1954)

  • "Midnight Blue" (October 1960, Ed McBain's Mystery Magazine)

  • "The Sleeping Dog" (April 1965, Argosy)


:in three collections: ''My Name is Archer'', ''Lew Archer, Private Investigator'', and ''Strangers in Town''


Film and TV

Two feature films starring Paul Newman as Lew Harper:
  • " Harper " (1966, Jack Smight) from the novel ''The Moving Target'' (1949)

  • " The Drowning Pool " (1975, Stuart Rosenberg)


(Newman reportedly, and perhaps apocryphally, changed the name to Harper to continue a run of lucky movies beginning with the letter H - The Hustler, Hud... )

A TV movie starring Peter Graves:
  • "The Underground Man" (1974, Paul Wendkos)


A TV series (NBC) starring Brian Keith :

Episode 1: "The Turkish Connection" 30 January 1975

Episode 2: "The Arsonist" 6 February 1975

Episode 3: "The Body Beautiful" 13 February 1975

Episode 4: "Shades of Blue" 20 February 1975

Episode 5: "The Vanished Man" 6 March 1975

Episode 6: "Blood Money" 13 March 1975





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