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Holly Martins

The Central Cemetery (Zentralfriedhof)

Chapter 1

Holly Martins arrives in Vienna at his friend's invitation and instead attends his funeral, watching the coffin lowered in the rain among the endless avenues of graves. The same cemetery gives the story its famous last image, Anna walking the long straight path past Martins without a glance.

Opening

explicitThe story opens and closes at Vienna's vast Central Cemetery, the Zentralfriedhof on the Simmeringer Hauptstrasse, where Harry Lime is buried twice: first in the staged funeral, then for real.

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Anna Schmidt

Café Mozart, central Vienna

Chapter 4

Through the cafés and theatres of central Vienna, Martins finds Anna Schmidt, Lime's lover, an actress with forged papers and a quiet loyalty to a man who did not deserve it. Their circling of the truth about Harry gives the middle of the book its melancholy, and its love story.

Chapters 4-6

inferredMartins does much of his asking around in the cafés of the inner city; Greene worked from the real Café Mozart near the Albertina, renamed in the story. Sited at Café Mozart in the Innere Stadt.

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Harry Lime

Harry Lime's doorway, the old town

Chapter 12

Late at night in the old town, a neighbour's light falls on a figure in a doorway and Martins sees the impossible: Harry Lime, alive, watching him. The dead man's reappearance turns the whole story, and sends Martins to the authorities with what he now knows.

Chapter 12

explicitThe scene in which Lime is revealed alive, lit for a moment in a shadowed doorway, is set on Schreyvogelgasse in the old town near the Mölker Bastei, a real lane still visited for it.

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Harry Lime

The Great Wheel, the Prater

Chapter 14

High over the city in a swaying cabin of the Great Wheel, Lime lays out his philosophy without shame, looking down on the people below as dots he would not miss. It is the moral centre of the story, the moment Martins understands what his friend has become, selling diluted penicillin that kills children.

Chapter 14

explicitThe confrontation between the two friends takes place in a cabin of the Wiener Riesenrad, the great Ferris wheel in the Prater amusement park, a real landmark of Vienna.

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Major Calloway

The Vienna sewers

Chapter 16

Cornered by Major Calloway's men, Lime flees into the sewers, and the hunt echoes through the great brick tunnels and rushing water beneath Vienna. It ends with the wounded Lime asking, with a look, for the bullet his old friend finally gives him.

Closing chapters

explicitThe final chase runs through Vienna's real sewer system, a vaulted underground network beneath the inner city that guided Third Man tours still descend into today.

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