Sherlock Holmes, The Missing Cases by Arthur Conan Doyle

He also resisted any attempt to make him wash.

Hugh Boone was arrested at once, but would say nothing, except to deny any knowledge of St. Later, his coat, with the pockets stuffed with hundreds of pennies and halfpennies, was found on the bank of the River Thames, just below the building's back window. Clair noticed a box of wooden toy bricks that her husband said he would buy for their son. The police were about to put her story down as a mistake of some kind when Mrs. The room behind the window was the lair of a dirty, disfigured beggar, known to the police as Hugh Boone. She fetched the police, but they did not find Mr. She tried to enter the building but her way was blocked by the opium den's owner, a lascar. Clair was sure that there was something wrong. He vanished from the window immediately, and Mrs. Glancing up, she saw her husband at a second-floor window of the opium den. She happened to pass down Upper Swandam Lane, a 'vile alley' near the London docks, where the opium den is. His family's home is in the country, but he visits London every day on business. Clair is a prosperous, respectable, punctual man. Watson stays to listen to Holmes tell the story of the case of Neville St. Watson is surprised to find that Sherlock Holmes is there too, in disguise and trying to get information to solve a different case about a man who has disappeared.

Watson helps her pull him out of the opium den and sends him home. Watson's wife comes to Watson's house, frantic because her husband, who is addicted to opium, has gone missing. Doyle ranked 'The Man with the Twisted Lip' sixteenth in a list of his nineteen favourite Sherlock Holmes stories. The story was first published in the Strand Magazine in December 1891. ' The Man with the Twisted Lip', one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the sixth of the twelve stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Hugh Boone begs for pennies in a London street, 1891 illustration by Sidney Paget

Sherlock Holmes, The Missing Cases by Arthur Conan Doyle