A man died on an Adelaide beach in 1948 with a scrap of Persian poetry sewn into his trouser pocket, and Australia spent three generations deciding he was a spy. Hairs caught in the cast of his face, a database of distant cousins and a family tree of four thousand people say he was something much sadder.
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