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On the 1st of December 1948, the body of a man was found on Somerton Beach in South Australia. No identification documents were located and the name tags had been removed from his clothing. A validated bus ticket in his possession indicated he had travelled from the Adelaide Railway Station to his final destination the previous day. During the Coronial Inquest, suspicions were raised that his death had been caused by an unknown poison. At the hearing a small rolled up piece of torn paper with the words 'Tamam Shud' was located in a fob pocket of the trousers he had been wearing. It was established these words had been torn from the last page of a copy of 'The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam'. As a result of intense media coverage a copy of the book with the words 'Tamam Shud' torn out was handed to the police. It had been found in an unlocked car near where the body was located, and during the relevant period. The tearing matched. A series of letters written on the rear of the book and coined as a 'Code' by the media, brought to the fore the spy theory. Also written on the book was a telephone number that was traced to a Sydney nurse who had moved to South Australia, and was living a shor
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Gerald Michael Feltus
- Publisher
- G M Feltus
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780646544762
- Category
- nonfiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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