Interesting and the HN angle must be the cryptography. Wondering if anyone has checked the actual texts of the poems in the made up 7th edition and the bespoke

Interesting and the HN angle must be the cryptography. Wondering if anyone has checked the actual texts of the poems in the made up 7th edition and the bespoke edition. If significant departures from accepted text, could be significant. Should be identical to each other if we assume used for messaging. OA mentions witnesses walking past assuming the victim was drunk and sleeping it off, and again seeing a man carried on another's shoulder and assuming it was a friend carrying a drunk colleague home. Tells you a lot about the times (I grew up in UK near Liverpool 1970s/1980s and public drunkenness was basically not commented on then). I think those activities in broad daylight would attract more attention now, despite our problems with binge drinking in early hours of morning. I've seen local police checking out walking drunks to make sure they are ok and have a plan to get home.