Australia, 1948. A man in a suit is found dead against a sea wall at Somerton Beach. He carries no ID, the labels in his clothes have been removed, and a tightly rolled scrap of paper printed with the words "Tamám Shud" is sewn into a hidden pocket.
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The Rubaiyat, the coded letters in the back of the book, the woman in Glenelg who never explained her connection, and the 2022 DNA-genealogy identification that's still being argued about.
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