What Would The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Earn?

By Anthony Balderrama

If you've been on a bus, train or beach in the past few years, you've probably seen people preoccupied with a bright green novel clutched in their hands. Stieg Larsson's blockbuster novels "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," "The Girl Who Played with Fire" and "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest" already had a huge following in his native Sweden when they were translated into English. But once they hit North American shores, even more readers became obsessed with the dark mysteries that Lisbeth Salander (the novel's namesake) finds herself mired in and the phenomenon took on a whole other life.