The Big Sleep vs The high window: Which Should You Read?

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

The high window Raymond Chandler · 1942 ★★★★☆ 3.8 198 pages · ≈ 3 h 40 m · Demanding

Fast-talking, trouble-seeking private eye Philip Marlowe is a different kind of detective: a moral man in an amoral world. California in the 1940s and 1950s is as beautiful as a ripe fruit and rotten to the core, and…