n offered by book sellers along with the Rubaiyat. I haven’t checked to see if the “code” occurs in this poem.
On the first line, the first letter either a ‘W’, ‘M’ or ‘H’ overlays what looks like the letter ‘P’?
Well, there’s no doubting whoever overlaid the image was confused.
MLIABO AIAQC = My Love I am bowled over, and I am quite C…
I looked at the original police reports on the Internet around 2010, and my pet theory revolved around SM being married to Jessica, and that he was bumped off to avoid bigamy. I thought the code was more like a lover’s note, not intended to be decoded, but rather read by two lover’s together, as a kind of teasing game.
And now you don’t?
No, your collected notes on the characters of Jessica, Carl and Prosper suggest
people who were shady. Back in 2010, my impression was more like Agatha Christie – that Carl was an intruder into Adelaide high society, and he had to be dealt with (I misread somewhere that Prosper was a doctor, or part of old Adelaide money).
Interesting choice of suburbs they lived in – without exception, not working class.
If you are scraping by in Adelaide in the 1940s, you could save money living in Prospect rather than Medindie, or in Norwood rather than Hazelwood Park.
Thanks also for replying. I must read more, having only stumbled on your site today. You might like to know that the Somerton Man case was featured this weekend by the UK podcast The Rest Is History. They played it light-hearted, as entertainment. In reality, the case is quite the rabbit-hole to go down – and dark, too.
Did you pick up on another disappearance/death in the Largs Bay sand dunes around the same time as this case? There was some discussion that the two cases were related. But this may have been media stirring up paranoia (or sales).
As for the cracking of the code, all the best and TTFN!