The crime novel titled “The Girl With the Dragon Tat­too” was pub­lished in Amer­ica. The book didn’t receive a ton of hype, not least because the author, a jour­nal­ist named Stieg Lars­son, was unavail­able for inter­views; he had died in 2004 of a heart attack at the age of 50. The mixed Times review appeared in the back pages of the Sun­day Book Review. Many more read­ers were riv­eted instead by the Lehman arti­cle on that morning’s front page: “A Wall Street Goliath Teeters Amid Fears of a Widen­ing Crisis.”