Crime Fiction > Kidnapping
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The Moving Target
by Ross Macdonald
Like many Southern California millionaires, Ralph Sampson keeps odd company. There's the sun-worshipping holy man whom Sampson once gave his very own mountain; the fading actress with sidelines in astrology and S&M. Now one of Sampson's friends may have arranged his kidnapping.
Year: 1949
Genre: Hardboiled Detective, Kidnapping, Private Eye
King's Ransom
by Ed McBain
When a wealthy businessman is faced with a kidnapping, the ransom could ruin his biggest deal ever--unless Detective Steve Carella can find the culprits before the kidnapping turns to murder.
Year: 1959
Genre: Kidnapping, Police Procedural
The Far Side of the Dollar
by Ross Macdonald
Private investigator Lew Archer is looking for an unstable rich kid who has run away from an exclusive reform school--and into the arms of kidnappers. Why are his desperate parents so loath to give Archer the information he needs to find him? And why do all trails lead to a derelict Hollywood hotel where starlets and sailors once rubbed elbows with two-bit grifters--and where the present clientele includes a brand-new corpse?
Year: 1965
Genre: Kidnapping, Private Eye
The Instant Enemy
by Ross Macdonald
Generations of murder, greed and deception come home to roost in time for the most shocking conclusion ever in a Lew Archer novel. At first glance, it's an open-and-shut missing persons case: a headstrong daughter has run off to be with her hothead juvenile delinquent boyfriend. That is until this bush-league Bonnie & Clyde kidnap Stephen Hackett, a local millionaire industrialist.
Year: 1968
Genre: Kidnapping, Missing Person, Private Eye
God Save the Child
by Robert B. Parker
Appie Knoll is the kind of suburb where kids grow up right. But something is wrong. Fourteen-year-old Kevin Bartlett disappears. Everyone thinks he's run away -- until the comic strip ransom note arrives.
Year: 1974
Genre: Hardboiled Detective, Kidnapping
