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The Somerton Man was an unidentified man whose body was found on 1 December 1948 on the beach at Somerton Park, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia.The case is also known after the Persian phrase tamám shud (تمام شد), [note 1] meaning "It is over" or "It is finished", which was printed on a scrap of paper found months later in the fob pocket of the man's trousers.
The Mystery of the Missing Man, published 1956, is the thirteenth novel in the children's mystery series The Five Find-Outers, written by Enid Blyton and originally illustrated by Lilian Buchanan. Plot [ edit ]
The missing three-quarter, 1904 illustration by Frederic Dorr Steele in Collier's. Mr. Cyril Overton of Trinity College, Cambridge, comes to Sherlock Holmes seeking his help in Godfrey Staunton's disappearance. Staunton is the key man on Overton's rugby union team (who plays at the three-quarters position, hence the story's title) and they will ...
A newspaper photographer is persuaded by his girlfriend to quit his job and set up his own photographic studio. However, when business proves to be slack he becomes a roving cameraman, taking pictures of passers-by in the streets. Things take a dangerous turn when he takes a snap of a violent criminal emerging from a bank robbery.
The Mysterious Mr Quin. Partners in Crime is a short story collection by British writer Agatha Christie, first published by Dodd, Mead and Company in the US in 1929 [ 1][ 2] and in the UK by William Collins, Sons on 16 September of the same year. [ 3] The US edition retailed at $2.00 [ 2] and the UK edition at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6 ...
The Man from the Train is a 2017 true crime book written by Bill James and his daughter [ 1] Rachel McCarthy James. In The Man from the Train, the authors claim to have discovered the identity and existence of a previously overlooked serial killer active in the late 1800s and early 1900s. According to the authors, this criminal was named Paul ...
Missing man table. A missing man table, also known as a fallen comrade table, [ 1] is a ceremony and memorial that is set up in military dining facilities of the United States Armed Forces and during official dining functions, in honor of fallen, missing, or imprisoned military service members. [ 2] The table serves as the focal point of ...
According to a spokesperson for the Plantation Police Department, the case went cold in 1975. Detectives have revisited the case many times over the years; in 1977, 1988, 1992, 2010, 2013, 2014 ...