The Adventures of Harry Lime later expanded by him and served as the basic plot for his film "Mr. Arkadin". A recording of the 1951 "A Ticket to Tangiers" episode of "The Lives of Harry Lime" series is available on the Criterion Collection DVD edition of "The Third Man". In addition, recordings of the 1952 episodes "Man of Mystery", "Murder on the Riviera" and "Blackmail is a Nasty Word" are included on the Criterion Collection DVD "The Complete Mr. Arkadin". Fifteen episodes were adapted into a short story collection, "The Lives of Harry Lime", published in the United Kingdom by Pocket Books in 1952. The
The Adventures of Harry Lime office, demanding to be paid for the scripts which "he" had ghostwritten for Welles. When Welles was asked about it later, he smiled: "Don't pay him. They weren't very good scripts." The episodes which were adapted into short stories were: Welles also tried to convert one episode script into a film script for producer Alexander Korda. When that fell through, the story was adapted into a novel and published in France as "Une Grosse Légume" in 1953. The novel was ghostwritten by Maurice Bessy and published under Welles's name. It has never been published in English. The Adventures of Harry