Pulp novelist Rollo Martins arrives in postwar, occupied Vienna to find his old friend Harry Lime freshly dead — and the circumstances of the death, and of Harry himself, far murkier than they first appear.
Books mentioned in The Third Man (3)
Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey: “Martins, without thinking, said, 'Grey.' He meant of course the author of Riders of the Purple Sage, and he was pleased to find his reply gave general satisfaction”
Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard: “If you have ever read the adventures of Allan Quartermain and the account of his voyage along the underground river to the city of Milosis, you will be able to picture the scene of Lime's last stand.”
Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie: “Marlowe's devils wore squibs attached to their tails: evil was like Peter Pan—it carried with it the horrifying and horrible gift of eternal youth.”