The Tamam Shud Enigma
Investigators were perplexed when they found what appeared to be a secret message stuffed in his trouser pocket. The words
Tamam Shud were printed on a rolled-up scrap of paper, found deep in the unidentified man's pocket. Consulting library experts, police found that the mysterious scrap had been torn from the last page of a rare copy of
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Eerily,
Tamam Shud is a phrase meaning "the end" or "finished", and is found at the end of
The Rubaiyat.
Was this cryptic note a final message of doom for the unknown man?