The Adventures of Harry Lime Towers and his company Towers of London. Towers and Graham Greene, author of "The Third Man", had the same literary agent, and Towers learned that Greene had not sold the rights to the character of Harry Lime to Alexander Korda when he sold Korda "The Third Man". Towers quickly bought the rights to the character and in 1951 he put a syndicated radio series into production. Orson Welles reprised the role of Harry Lime in a series of adventures that preceded the story told in "The Third Man". Several episodes would begin with "The Third Man Theme" being played, abruptly
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