The-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo.doc

Name
Job titles and connection
Descriptions
Mikael Kalle Blomkvist
Publisher of Millennium
Nickname Kalle, Carl, LOVER with Erika before. Jorven (CAT)
-- Minica
Ex-wife
Leave for infidelity with Erika
-- Pernilla
Daughter

-- Annika Blomkvist
Sister
Now Annika Giannini, lived with her husband and 2 children
-- Erika Berger
Editor in chief of Millennium
Berger and Blomkvist met in journalist school. Happed to be married to the artist Greger Beckman, a minor celebrity.
-- Christer Malm
The art director and designer
An exhibitionist gay celebrity. A sough-after photographer.
-- Robert Lindberg

School buddies with Blomkvist
-- William Borg
Peer
Known Blomkvist for fifteen years., an enemy with Mikael
-- Janne Dahlman

Mikael hired him, but Erika wants to fire him.
Arnold Magnusson
Boyfriend of Christer

Astrid Lindgren
Author

Hans-Erik Wennerstrom
financier
Blomkvist libeled and defamed him
Bertil Camnermarker
Layer for Wennerstrom

Robban

AIA
The Agency for Industrial Assistance was a project that was backed by the state and ..
Dragan Armansky
Milton Security
Born in Croatia fifty-six years ago.
Lisbeth Salander
Colleague of Milton Security

-- Plague

Smell like mice
Holger Palmgren
Semi-retired lawyer

Dirch Frode
Lawyer to Vanger
Working for Vanger in 1962.
Henrik Vanger
An industrialist
A former head of the Vanger companies, run today by Martin Vanger
-- Harald
Recluse, 92 year now
60 years no spoken with Henrik,
-- Hermann Loach
Chaperone and mentor

-- Sofia Vanger
Henrik’s counsin

-- Sara Sjogren
daughter

-- Eva
dentist
Known Martin for many years
Gunnar Nilsson
Neighbor to Blomkvist
Vanger insisted on calling “The caretaker” on Hedeby Island. (56-year old now, 19 when Harriet disappeared. ).
-- Magnus Nilsson
Father
Retired and lives in Hedestad
-- Helena Nilsson
Wife
Their children have moved out.
Norman
Artist

Aronsson
farmer
Lived on Hedeby island
-- Jerker Aronsson
Son
Close enough to Harriet Vanger
Falk
Pastor

Magnusson & Bergman
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Advokat N.E. Bjurman
Brass Plague

Advokat Holger Palmgren

Ingrid Vanger

Lived in Hedestad
-- Gunnar Karlman
Son
Editor in chief of the Hedestad Courier.
Madeleine Blomberg (Maja)
Hedestad Courier
2 photographers – Kurt Nylund

l Cecllia -> 20, She’s shrewder than most. Highest regard from Henrik
l Gerda -> , suffered from rheumatism
l Gustav à , died of lung disease at the age of 37.
l No Vanger had been divorced or remarried.
l Fredrik’s descendants played leading roles in the business
l Richard, Harald and Greger joined Per Engdahl’s fascist movement.

Vocabulary
Synonym
Sentence
Irretrievably

The trial was irretrievably over.
Hand down
Hand on; announce
The written verdict was handed down at 10:00 on Friday morning.
Corridor
Hallway; passageway

Sound bite
A short pithy sentence

Pull off
Complete successfully
A gang which had pulled off five back robberies.
Hold up
To rob

Epithet
nickname
An epithet employed with taunting provocation.
Gaol
Jail

Blustery
windy
It was blustery December day.
Enmity
hate

Disparage
Cheapen, belittle
Made disparaging remarks.
Pompous
Exaggerated

Homage
respect
Wrote homage to companies.
Aggravate
Irritate, provoke

Acquit
Discharge
The court had acquitted him on seven other counts.
Reconcile
Settle
He had become reconciled to the outcome
Trifle

The judgment was a trifle, relatively speaking.
Dormer window / gable window
Dormer Gable
Byline
Signature
Publish a story under his byline.
Banter
Tease

Bean counter
Like bookkeeper

Flamboyance

Out of the blue
Surprising

Nail down
Fix
The government wanted to nail down democracy in the East.
Untapped market
Russia and Eastern European may be the world’s biggest untapped market after China.
Henchman
Follower or supporter

Ticklish
sticky
This is where the story gets ticklish.
Terminology
Used with a particular technical application.
Crummy
Dirty, unpleasant
It was some crummy little business.
Ramshackle
Severe disrepair
Factory was a ramshackle structure.
Corrugate
wrinkle
A corrugated iron storage building ….
Washing powder

Lorry
Van, truck

Reserved
Backward, inner
A reserved boy.
Swindle
To cheat out of money
Swindling a trifling fifty million. ( blatant swindle.)
Fetishist
Pervert
Uniform fetishist.
crease
wrinkle
Straightened the crease in his trousers.
Tank top
A sleeveless upper garment.
Jill-of-all-trades
A girl who knows how to do everything.
Quintessence
class
She was the very quintessence of difficult.
Unperturbed
Soothing
Armansky sat there, stunned and angry, and she went on unperturbed.
Irksome
Tiresome

Take the rap
To strike

Loathing
dislike

Plump for
To support enthusiastically; be wholeheartedly in favor of.
Pay through the nose
To pay too much for something.
Mediocre
Ordinary
Why so many financial reporters treated mediocre whelps like star.
Recalcitrant
Mule, defiant

Sought-after
desirable

In the wake of
The following

Nuisance
Annoyance

Scare up
Collect barely
We can scare up some new clients.
Proffer
Hold out something to someone for acceptance
Taken the proffered MIC.
Herald
Messenger

House call
A professional visit

Equivocal
Ambiguous
You couldn’t get more equivocal, could you?
Magnate
A influential person
Former magnate
A4 binder

Gaunt