The Man Who Went Up in Smoke (Martin Beck #2)

by Maj Sjöwall

“Budapest is the capital of the Hungarian People’s Republic. It is considered to have been founded in 1873, when the three towns Buda, Pest and Óbuda were united into one, but excavations have revealed settlements several thousand years old, and Aquincum, the capital of the Roman province of Lower Pannonia, was situated on this spot. Today the city has nearly two million inhabitants and is divided into twenty-three districts.”