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In the film noir classic The Third Man, Orson Welles played Harry Lime - rouge, scoundrel, and black marketeer in postwar Vienna. At the end of the film, in a spectacular chase through the sewers of the city, Harry met his end. But in radio's first prequel, Welles resumed the role in The Lives of Harry Lime, a series produced in England by Harry Alan Towers. Volume 1 present Lime's criminal adventures before he met his doom - bank heists, confidence schemes, swindles, and such, in a series of witty and well written lighthearted dramas featuring Welles and a virtual stock company of talented actors in adventures set in such exotic locales as Paris, Venice, Tangiers, and the French Riviera. Chapters: #1 Too Many Crooks #2 See Naples and Live #3 Clay Pigeon #4 A Ticket to Tangiers #5 Voodoo #7 Love Affair #8 Rogue's Holiday #9 Work of Art #10 Operation Music Box #11 Golden Fleece #12 Blue Bride #13 Every Frame Has a Silver Lining #14 Mexican Hat Trick #15 Art is Long and Lime is Fleeting #16 In Pursuit of a Gho