Monday 28 February 2022

Two Cars

Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played With Fire (London, 2010.

Blomkvist drives to Gosseberga in a hired car, later retrieved by the police, whereas Salander drives there in a borrowed Milton Security car which is neither retrieved nor even mentioned again. On arrival, she:

"...parked behind a barn in a clump of trees about a hundred metres north of the driveway." (p. 534)

When Blomkvist arrived later, he:

"...parked next to a barn on a forest road a hundred metres to the north... He found fresh tyre tracks in the mud and decided that another car had been parked in the same place earlier, but he did not stop to consider what that might mean." (p. 568)

Why should he have considered it? But we need to. Was the Milton Security car stolen between her and his arrivals?

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