Budapest Noir

Budapest Noir
Budapest Noir first-edition cover
AuthorVilmos Kondor
Original titleBudapest Noir
TranslatorPaul Olchvary
LanguageEnglish
SeriesBudapest Noir
SubjectHungary in the 1930s
GenreMystery fiction, noir
PublisherHarperCollins
Publication date
February 2012
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint paperback
Pages304 (first edition)
ISBN0-061-85939-7
813/.5/4
LC ClassPH3382.21.O555B8313 2012

Budapest Noir is the first Hungarian noir written by Vilmos Kondor and published by HarperCollins in Hungary in February 2012. The novel is about a crime journalist Zsigmond Gordon, who wants to find the killer of a Jewish girl found dead in Budapest in 1936, and besides the criminal element offers social commentary, political and historical background of Hungary flirting with fascism.