The Unauthorized Guide to the Real World Stories Behind the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

This guide introduces the reader to Stieg Larsson's novel The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. It discusses the protagonists, Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist, and explains real world concepts the characters are based on: private investigators, computer hackers, eidetic (photographic) memory, investigative journalists, and more. It also describes other influences on the story, such as genealogy, defamation, cold cases, trust law, the Bible, and Nazism. This guide contains information on Stockholm and Australia, places featured in the novel. It includes sections about the 2009 and 2011 film adaptations of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. This guide also has a biography of the novel's author, Stieg Larsson. Project Webster represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Project Webster continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge.