12 best-selling fiction books like The Moving Target by Ross Macdonald

Cover of The Moving Target by Ross Macdonald

The Moving Target

By: Ross Macdonald

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

Like many Southern California millionaires, Ralph Sampson keeps odd company. There's the sun-worshi…

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Cover of Homicide Trinity (Nero Wolfe, #36) by Rex Stout, Stephen Greenleaf

1. Homicide Trinity (Nero Wolfe, #36)

By: Rex Stout , Stephen Greenleaf

4.23

Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback

It’s a wily killer who dares to strike on Nero Wolfe’s hallowed turf—and leave a corpse strangled w… read more

Similar categories in Rex Stout's Homicide Trinity (Nero Wolfe, #36) book and Ross Macdonald's The Moving Target

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2) by Raymond Chandler

2. Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)

By: Raymond Chandler

4.10

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Marlowe's about to give up on a completely routine case when he finds himself in the wrong place at… read more

Similar categories in Raymond Chandler's Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2) book and Ross Macdonald's The Moving Target

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"She was a cute as a washtub."

-Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)

"It was a nice walk, if you liked grunting."

-Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)

"She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket."

-Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)

"The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on."

-Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)

Cover of The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6) by Raymond Chandler

3. The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)

By: Raymond Chandler

4.19

Format: 379 pages, Paperback

Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out… read more

Similar categories in Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6) book and Ross Macdonald's The Moving Target

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"To say goodbye is to die a little."

-Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)

"I'm a native son, born in Santa Rosa."

-Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)

"I'm killing time and it's dying hard."

-Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)

"I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars."

-Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)

Cover of 361 by Donald E. Westlake

4. 361

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.56

Format: 207 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The men in the tan-and-cream Chrysler came with guns blazing. When Ray Kelly woke up in the hospita… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's 361 book and Ross Macdonald's The Moving Target

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Last Good Kiss (C.W. Sughrue, #1) by James Crumley

5. The Last Good Kiss (C.W. Sughrue, #1)

By: James Crumley

3.74

Format: 410 pages, Paperback

An unforgettable detective story starring C.W. Sughrue, a Montana investigator who kills time by wo… read more

Similar categories in James Crumley's The Last Good Kiss (C.W. Sughrue, #1) book and Ross Macdonald's The Moving Target

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of A Dance At The Slaughterhouse (Matthew Scudder, #9) by Lawrence Block

6. A Dance At The Slaughterhouse (Matthew Scudder, #9)

By: Lawrence Block

3.78

Format: 479 pages, Paperback

In Matt Scudder's mind, money, power, and position elevate nobody above morality and the law. Now t… read more

Similar categories in Lawrence Block's A Dance At The Slaughterhouse (Matthew Scudder, #9) book and Ross Macdonald's The Moving Target

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Playback (Philip Marlowe, #7) by Raymond Chandler

7. Playback (Philip Marlowe, #7)

By: Raymond Chandler

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

As Chandler's last novel opens, Philip Marlowe meets a well-endowed redhead as she disembarks from … read more

Similar categories in Raymond Chandler's Playback (Philip Marlowe, #7) book and Ross Macdonald's The Moving Target

  • detective
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Butcher's Moon (Parker, #16) by Richard Stark

8. Butcher's Moon (Parker, #16)

By: Richard Stark

4.41

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

The sixteenth Parker novel, Butcher’s Moon is more than twice as long most of the master heister’s … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"He's a man who didn't hear the twig snap."

-Richard Stark, Butcher's Moon (Parker, #16)

Cover of The Moving Target by Ross Macdonald

9. The Moving Target

By: Ross Macdonald

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

Like many Southern California millionaires, Ralph Sampson keeps odd company. There's the sun-worshi… read more

Similar categories in Ross Macdonald's The Moving Target book and Ross Macdonald's The Moving Target

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Blood on the Moon (Lloyd Hopkins, #1) by James Ellroy

10. Blood on the Moon (Lloyd Hopkins, #1)

By: James Ellroy

4.30

Format: None pages, Paperback

Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins can't stand music, or any loud sounds. He's got a beautiful wife, … read more

Similar categories in James Ellroy's Blood on the Moon (Lloyd Hopkins, #1) book and Ross Macdonald's The Moving Target

  • detective
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

11. A Stab in the Dark (Matthew Scudder, #4)

By: Lawrence Block

3.87

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

Louis Pinell, the recently apprehended Icepick Prowler, freely admits to having slain seven young w… read more

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12. Trouble Is My Business

By: Raymond Chandler

4.26

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

In the four long stories in this collection, Marlowe is hired to protect a rich old guy from a gold… read more

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13. The Man With The Getaway Face (Parker, #2)

By: Richard Stark

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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14. A Ticket to the Boneyard (Matthew Scudder, #8)

By: Lawrence Block

4.21

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Matt Scudder put the brilliant and elusive James Leo Motley behind bars - for good, or so he hoped.… read more

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15. The Devil Knows You're Dead (Matthew Scudder, #11)

By: Lawrence Block

4.21

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Scudder is back, tracking a killer through the alleys of Hell's Kitchen and mapping the darker regi… read more

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16. The Glass Key

By: Dashiell Hammett

4.12

Format: 652 pages,

Paul Madvig was a cheerfully corrupt ward-heeler who aspired to something better: the daughter of S… read more

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17. Red Harvest

By: Dashiell Hammett

4.12

Format: 652 pages, ebook

The Continental Op first heard Personville called Poisonville by Hickey Dewey. But since Dewey also… read more

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18. The Dain Curse

By: Dashiell Hammett

4.12

Format: 652 pages, Paperback

Everything about the Leggett diamond heist indicated to the Continental Op that it was an inside jo… read more

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19. The Hunter (Parker, #1)

By: Richard Stark

4.12

Format: 440 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Double-crossed, shot, and left for dead -- by his wife. The thriller that introduces Parker. "A bri… read more

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20. The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe, #4)

By: Raymond Chandler

3.36

Format: None pages, Paperback

A couple of missing wives--one a rich man's and one a poor man's--become the objects of Marlowe's i… read more

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Cover of Bank Shot (Dortmunder, #2) by Donald E. Westlake

21. Bank Shot (Dortmunder, #2)

By: Donald E. Westlake

4.03

Format: 189 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When John Dortmunder sets out to rob a bank, he really means it. He steals the whole thing. With th… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's Bank Shot (Dortmunder, #2) book and Ross Macdonald's The Moving Target

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

22. The Hot Rock (Dortmunder, #1)

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

John Archibald Dortmunder is the thief whose capers never quite come off. Here, the released convic… read more

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23. The Friends of Eddie Coyle

By: George V. Higgins

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Eddie Coyle works for Jimmy Scalisi, supplying him with guns for a couple of bank jobs. But a cop n… read more

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24. The High Window (Philip Marlowe, #3)

By: Raymond Chandler

3.99

Format: 11 pages, Paperback

A wealthy Pasadena widow with a mean streak, a missing daughter-in-law with a past, and a gold coin… read more

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25. White Butterfly (Easy Rawlins #3)

By: Walter Mosley , Stanley Bennett Clay

3.55

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The police don't show up on Easy Rawlins's doorstep until the third girl dies. It's Los Angeles, 19… read more

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26. Too Many Clients (Nero Wolfe, #34)

By: Rex Stout , None

4.11

Format: 274 pages,

Oversexed executive Thomas Yeager preferred to keep his after-office hours to himself... but when h… read more

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27. Champagne for One (Nero Wolfe, #31)

By: Rex Stout , None

3.96

Format: None pages, Paperback

Faith Usher talked about taking her own life and even kept cyanide in her purse. So when she died f… read more

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28. The Fabulous Clipjoint

By: Fredric Brown

4.29

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

1948 Edgar Award Winner Ed Hunter is eighteen, and he isn't happy. He doesn't want to end up like h… read more

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29. The Little Sister (Philip Marlowe, #5)

By: Raymond Chandler

4.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

Chandler's 5th novel has Philip Marlowe going to Hollywood as he explores the underworld of glitter… read more

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30. Pop. 1280

By: Jim Thompson

0.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Nick Corey is a terrible sheriff on purpose. He doesn't solve problems, enforce rules or arrest cri… read more

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Cover of Farewell, Amethystine (Easy Rawlins, #16) by Walter Mosley

31. Farewell, Amethystine (Easy Rawlins, #16)

By: Walter Mosley

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Easy Rawlins novels follow the infamous detective Easy Rawlins solving mysteries on the sun-soa… read more

Similar categories in Walter Mosley's Farewell, Amethystine (Easy Rawlins, #16) book and Ross Macdonald's The Moving Target

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

12 Top mystery books like The Moving Target by Ross Macdonald

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Homicide Trinity (Nero Wolfe, #36)

Rex Stout , Stephen Greenleaf

4.23

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Raymond Chandler

4.10

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The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)

Raymond Chandler

4.19

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361

Donald E. Westlake

3.56

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Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)

Raymond Chandler

4.10

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Imperial Bedrooms

Bret Easton Ellis

3.19

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Ross Macdonald

3.58

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Lawrence Block

3.85

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