The Summerton Man was found dead on a beach in Victoria, Australia. The police were trying to find out who had killed him by looking for his book. They discovered four lines of letters that could only be interpreted as code. Code-breaking experts with the Australian Navy worked on it for weeks and couldn't figure it out. A woman gave them her copy of the Rubiad of Omar Khayem which they thought may have been the man's. But when they asked about Alf Boxle she backpedaled and said she'd seen one before. He was alive and well at the time - but he didn't know what those words meant.

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