Fourth Larsson novel not complete

LONDON, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- Stieg Larsson's longtime partner said the Swedish author wrote about 200 pages of a fourth novel before he died in 2004.

Larsson suffered a fatal heart attack at age 50. Three of his books were published posthumously and became blockbusters.

Eva Gabrielsson, his girlfriend of 32 years, was asked during a BBC interview this week about rumors claiming the man who penned "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" and its two sequels also left behind a manuscript for a fourth book.

"There's the beginning of a fourth novel," Gabrielsson told the BBC. "I would estimate it to be about 200 pages, given what I saw in late August during our last vacation, and given what I knew of Stieg's workload in his last two months. ... It probably doesn't hang together. Stieg was a spontaneous writer, he could write scenes and not knit them together until later on -- he just liked the scene. You can't call it a novel."

Swedish films based on Larsson's novels also became hits and an Americanized version starring Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig is in the works.