Owls Don't Blink vs The Big Clock: Which Should You Read?

Owls Don't Blink Erle Stanley Gardner · 1942 ★★★★☆ 3.9 277 pages · ≈ 5 h 08 m · Challenging

Cool & Lam Mystery #6 (1942) New York lawyer Emory Hale hires Los Angeles duo Bertha Cool and Donald Lam to find person-of-interest Roberta Fenn in New Orleans. For a client Hale refuses to name. Because there's…

The Big Clock Kenneth Fearing · 1946 ★★★★☆ 3.7 175 pages · ≈ 3 h 14 m · Challenging

George Stroud is a hard-drinking, tough-talking, none-too-scrupulous writer for a New York media conglomerate that bears a striking resemblance to Time, Inc. in the heyday of Henry Luce. One day, before heading home to…