Budapest Noir
Budapest Noir first-edition cover | |
| Author | Vilmos Kondor |
|---|---|
| Original title | Budapest Noir |
| Translator | Paul Olchvary |
| Language | English |
| Series | Budapest Noir |
| Subject | Hungary in the 1930s |
| Genre | Mystery fiction, noir |
| Publisher | HarperCollins |
Publication date | February 2012 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print paperback |
| Pages | 304 (first edition) |
| ISBN | 0-061-85939-7 |
| 813/.5/4 | |
| LC Class | PH3382.21.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.