Dhanaraj Rajan's Reviews > The Third Man / The Fallen Idol

It is not anything like the Greene works that I had read.

This is a novel of action with less reflection - reflection on the character or the situation. It is more like a murder mystery (whodunit mystery). In the Preface we are already warned by Greene that these two works (The Third Man / The Fallen Idol) were actually meant for Film Productions.

The Third Man is a good entertainment in that sense. The Fallen Idol would not have succeeded as a film. But Greene tells that they made many changes in the film version.

I have not seen both films. So I can not judge the novellas against the films or the films against the novellas.

May be, I expected something that I considered Greene in this novellas. And I am told that Greene also could write other works, not just in the line of my expectations. No complaints.