July 1954) "Midnight Blue" (October 1960, Ed McBain's Mystery Magazine) "The Sleeping Dog" (April 1965, Argosy) in three collections: The Name Is Archer, Lew Archer, Private Investigator, and Strangers in Town Adaptations Film The character has been adapted for visual media several times: Two feature films starring Paul Newman as "Lew Harper": Harper (1966, directed by Jack Smight) derived from the novel The Moving Target (1949) The Drowning Pool (1975, directed by Stuart Rosenberg) derived from the novel of the same title The Underground Man (1974, directed by Paul Wendkos) a television movie starring Peter Graves. Random House Films made a deal in October 2011 to create a movie franchise of Ross Macdonald's detective Lew Archer with Silver Pictures and Warner Bros. Rights holder Stephen White and Random House Studio president Peter Gethers would be executive producers on the movies. This movie series would start adapting with the eighth book in the series, The Galton Case. From Silver Pictures, Andrew Rona and Alex Heineman will be executive producers with Joel Silver producing. TV series Archer, a 1975 NBC TV series (NBC) starring Brian Keith based on the character. It was cancelled after six episodes: "The Turkish Connection", aired 30 January 1975 "The Arsonist", aired 6 February 1975 "The Body Beautiful", aired 13 February 1975 "Shades of Blue", aired 20 February 1975 "The Vanished Man", aired 6 March 1975 "Blood Money", aired 13 March 1975 Le Loup de la côte Ouest (2002, Hugo Santiago from the short story "Guilt-Edged Blonde") starring James Faulkner as Lew Millar. (Alternate Title: The Wolf of the West Coast) Radio "Sleeping Beauty", aired 1 January 1996 on NPR starring Harris Yulin as Archer "The Zebra Striped Hearse", produced by KCRW starring Harris Yulin as Archer References External links Lew Archer on ThrillingDetective.com Lew Archer series at Good Reads.com Fictional private investigators Characters in American novels of the 20th century