Question

The police investigated this person’s connections to the Evil Fingers rock band, which they mistakenly believed was a cult of satanic lesbians. In an event known as “All the Evil”, this person severely injured their father by throwing a Molotov cocktail into his car at the age of 12. This person and an estranged sister named Camilla were the children of a defector known as “Zala”. A highly (-5[1])secretive agency called the Section placed this person under the oversight of Peter (*) Teleborian, who tried to keep her in a psychiatric clinic by declaring her mentally incompetent. (-5[1])This woman passed to the care of Holger Palmgren as a teenage ward of the state until he suffered a debilitating stroke, after which her guardian became Nils Bjurman. For 10 points, Millennium magazine journalist Mikael Blomkvist (10[1])researched criminal (10[1])cases (10[1])with the help of what antisocial Swedish hacker? ■END■ (10[3])

ANSWER: Lisbeth Salander [accept either underlined portion; prompt on “the girl with the dragon tattoo”]
<Literature | Millennium/Stieg Larsson | AH>
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