TY  - BOOK
AU  - Greene,Graham
TI  - The third man
SN  - 0140286829
AV  - PZ3.G8319  Tg
PY  - 1999///, 1950
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Penguin
KW  - British
KW  - Austria
KW  - Fiction
KW  - English fiction
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Motion picture plays
KW  - Vienna (Austria)
KW  - Detective and mystery stories
KW  - gsafd
N1  - Based on the motion picture of the same title; Originally published: New York: Viking Press, 1950
N2  - Rollo Martins' usual line is the writing of cheap paperback Westerns under the name of Buck Dexter. But when his old friend Harry Lime invites him to Vienna, he jumps at the chance. With exactly five pounds in his pocket, he arrives only just in time to make it to his friend's funeral. The victim of an apparently banal street accident, the late Mr. Lime, it seems, had been the focus of a criminal investigation, suspected of nothing less than being "the worst racketeer who ever made a dirty living in this city." Martins is determined to clear his friend's name, and begins an investigation of his own
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