This blog entry is now the fifth example of John Walsh’s heavy plagiarism of my book In Search of the Third Man that I have posted online. Although there are much more rewarding things that I would prefer to do with my time, I have been advised that it is important to set out the extent of the plagiarism in as much detail as possible. This latest example shows how p.103 of Walsh’s book The Third Man: The Official Story of the Film steals from pp.59–60 of In Search of the Thi

Last week the Society of Authors gave me some advice concerning the copyright infringement of my book In Search of the Third Man . They told me that it was important to clarify the extent of the copying in as much detail as possible. So what follows is yet another example of how John Walsh ’s The Third Man: The Official Story of the Film steals from my book. And although I have now put online four examples of Walsh ’s heavy plagiarism, I shall go on, page by page, to prov

Among several pages of heavily plagiarized text to be found in The Third Man: The Official Story of the Film is the above sample, which is being used to sell the book on Amazon. It is stolen from In Search of the Third Man , a book I wrote twenty-five years ago. When last Thursday I heard from Titan, the book’s publishers, I agreed that I would give them another week to sort out what had gone wrong before submitting a copyright infringment report to Amazon. They shared with