Solving the Somerton man mystery: no Russian spy, just a bit of a loner who wrote poetry?

A body on a beach in South Australia, the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám and a secret code - after 73 years the tantalising mix of evidence may have a more banal explanation It is a case that captured the attention of Australia and the world, with all the hallmarks of a great mystery novel. A body on the beach. Slumped against the sea wall, the man is well dressed but no one can identify him. A scrap of paper in a foreign tongue is found inside his pocket - the words "tamám shud", meaning "it is f...