The Cigarette Case
As a late birthday present, Mimmi gives Salander "a beautiful cigarette case with a lid of blue and black enamel and some tiny Chinese characters as decoration" (9.43). We wish we could tell you wh...
The 1991 Police Report
The police report, authored by Gunnar Björck under the pseudonym Sven Jansson, is a symbol of everything that's wrong in Salander's life, and she's never even seen a copy of it until she finds...
Coffee
In his review of the final novel in the trilogy, critic David Camp comments on the constant coffee drinking featured in Stieg Larsson's novels. Irreverently (but hilariously) he says,Many of the La...
Do The Math
What do Lisbeth Salander and starship captain Jean Luc Picard have in common? Sure the Captain is the picture of diplomacy, while Salander spits in the face of diplomacy – but aren't they bot...