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CHAPTER 23
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Friday, July 11
He awoke at 6:00 with the sun shining through a gap in the curtains right in his face. He had a vague headache, and it hurt when he touched the bandage. Salander was asleep on her stomach with one arm flung over him. He looked down at the dragon on her shoulder blade.
He counted her tattoos1. As well as a wasp2 on her neck, she had a loop around one ankle, another loop around the biceps of her left arm, a Chinese symbol on her hip3, and a rose on one calf4.
He got out of bed and pulled the curtains tight. He went to the bathroom and then padded back to bed, trying to get in without waking her.
A couple of hours later over breakfast Blomkvist said, “How are we going to solve this puzzle?”
“We sum up the facts we have. We try to find more.”
“For me, the only question is: why? Is it because we’re trying to solve the mystery about Harriet, or because we’ve uncovered a hitherto unknown serial5 killer6?”
“There must be a connection,” Salander said. “If Harriet realised that there was a serial killer, it can only have been someone she knew. If we look at the cast of characters in the sixties, there were at least two dozen possible candidates. Today hardly any of them are left except Harald Vanger, who is not running around in the woods of Fr?skogen at almost ninety-three with a gun. Everybody is either too old to be of any danger today, or too young to have been around in the fifties. So we’re back to square one.”
“Unless there are two people who are collaborating7. One older and one younger.”
“Harald and Cecilia? I don’t think so. I think she was telling the truth when she said that she wasn’t the person in the window.”
“Then who was that?”
They turned on Blomkvist’s iBook and spent the next hour studying in detail once again all the people visible in the photographs of the accident on the bridge.
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| n.文身( tattoo的名词复数 );归营鼓;军队夜间表演操;连续有节奏的敲击声v.刺青,文身( tattoo的第三人称单数 );连续有节奏地敲击;作连续有节奏的敲击 | |
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killer
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nemesis
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parody
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investigation
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chapel
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cadaver
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remains
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fingerprints
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cremation
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niches
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cemetery
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hacker
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gratitude
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retrospect
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tattooed
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notches
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clattering
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attic
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| growth; economy; management; and customer satisfaction 增长 | |
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Nazi
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gathering
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gatherings
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tanker
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gust
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inspector
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chronological
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negotiation
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negotiations
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anarchist
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provincial
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disappearance
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accomplice
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grooming
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