wife Evelyn Keyes (qv) was certain Croves was the mysterious  author, believing that he was continually giving himself away,  saying "I" when it should have been "he", and using phrases that  were exactly the same as those to be found in Travens letters to  Huston. All very ironic, especially considering that Traven was  offered $1000 a week to act as technical advisor on the film.