![]() The first two at least had reached such an age that the group of interested parties would soon be further diminished. Now the actors in the drama were but three: the elderly birthday boy, the retired police detective, and the person who had posted the flower. Thirty years ago the regular arrival of the flower was the object of much scrutiny-at the National Forensic Laboratory, among fingerprint experts, graphologists, criminal investigators, and one or two relatives and friends of the recipient. The strange story of the flowers had never been reported in the press only a very few people knew of it. They were always beautiful and for the most part rare flowers, always pressed, mounted on water-colour paper in a simple frame measuring six inches by eleven inches. Here’s the quote:īut it was only one in the series of mystifying flowers that each year arrived by post on the first day of November. An older man receives a rare pressed flower on his birthday-a mysterious occurrence that happens every year. ![]() I think the opening of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is a perfect mystery set up. ![]()
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