1948年阿德莱德海滩上的无名男子，口袋里有一张写着“完结”的纸

On the morning of December 1, 1948, on a beach outside Adelaide, Australia, someone saw a middle-aged man sitting motionless against the sea wall, as if he were asleep. Passersby thought he was drunk and left him alone. By afternoon, he was still there.

The police arrived and found he was dead. He was dressed respectably: a suit, tie, and clean leather shoes. No hat, no identification, and all the labels on his clothes had been cut off. In his pockets were a train ticket, a pack of cigarettes, a comb, and a small piece of paper torn from a book, printed with two words: "Tamam", Persian for "Finished" or "The End."

The scrap came from the last page of a Persian poetry collection, the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Several months later, police found one such book in the back seat of a parked car; the missing page matched the scrap perfectly. Pencil-written lines resembling a code were on the back cover, and there was a telephone number inside belonging to a young woman nearby. She claimed not to know the man, but grew nervous in front of the police. Many experts have examined those lines of letters, and to this day no one has cracked them.

Who was he? No one came forward to claim him. During the autopsy, there was bleeding in his stomach, but no poison could be detected. Some said he had been poisoned; some said he was a spy—the Cold War had just begun.

At Adelaide railway station's left luggage office, there was a suitcase whose contents also had all their labels cut off.

For more than seventy years after that, the case remained unsolved. In 2022, a university professor and a DNA researcher finally confirmed his name: Carl Webb, an electrical engineer from Melbourne, born in 1905.

Why he died on that beach, whether it was suicide or murder, and what the scrap and the code truly meant—no one has made it clear to this day.

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