Download or read book Death in a Bowl written by Raoul Whitfield and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death in a Bowl, first published in 1931, is a hard-boiled detective novel in the style of genre-master Dashiell Hammett. The novel features Ben Jardinn, a rough, hard-drinking private investigator based in an office near Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. Jardinn is called into action following the murder of a famous orchestra conductor during a concert at the open-air Hollywood Bowl.