Stalking the Angel vs The Big Sleep: Which Should You Read?

Stalking the Angel Robert Crais · 1989 ★★★★☆ 4.0 256 pages · ≈ 4 h 44 m · Moderate

Meet Elvis Cole, L.A. private eye . . . he quotes Jiminy Cricket and carries a .38. He’s a literate, wisecreacking Vietnam vet who is determined never to grow up. The blonde who walked into Cole’s office was the…

The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler · 1939 ★★★★☆ 3.9 184 pages · ≈ 3 h 24 m · Challenging

“It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills.”

Philip Marlowe, a private eye who operates in Los Angeles's seamy underside during the 1930s, takes on his first case, which involves a paralyzed California millionaire, two psychotic daughters, blackmail, and murder