I think they mean the scrap of paper torn out of the book: > In 1949, a pathologist had found a bit of paper concealed in one of the dead man’s pockets, and on

I think they mean the scrap of paper torn out of the book: > In 1949, a pathologist had found a bit of paper concealed in one of the dead man’s pockets, and on it were printed the words Tamám Shud, the Persian for “finished.”