He achieved considerable success with his first attempt at screenwriting, Forbidden Games (1952). Initially, he found no studio interested in his work, so he redesigned the screenplay as a novel and published it in 1947 under the title The Secret Game.
Initially, he had difficulty getting a studio to produce his first screenplay, "Forbidden Games" (1952). He then adapted the script into a novel and released it in 1947 as "The Secret Game."