The high window vs The Monkey's Raincoat: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Los angeles, California, Private investigators, Fiction
The high window
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…
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The Monkey's Raincoat
When Los Angeles private detective Elvis Cole investigates the disappearance of Ellen Lang's husband and young son, he stumbles into a bizarre nightmare of high-level intrigue, missing drugs, and murder in Hollywood's…
The verdict
- Readers rate The Monkey's Raincoat highest: The Monkey's Raincoat 4.0 · The high window 3.8.
- The Monkey's Raincoat has the widest readership — 1411 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| The high window | The Monkey's Raincoat | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.0 (8) | — |
| Hardcover | — | 3.8 (57) |
| Apple Books | — | 4.0 (1411) |
Reception
| The high window | The Monkey's Raincoat | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 12 | 1411 |
| Editions | 32 | 7 |
| Citations | 20 | — |
| Film adaptations | — | 1 |
| Want to read | 11 | — |
| Pages | 198 | 256 |