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| Title: | The Man with the Twisted Lip | Collection: | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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| Year published: | 1891 (December) | Year set in: | 1889 |
| Mystery: | What was a rich man doing in an opium den and what happened to him? | ||
| Apparent crime: | Deceipt | Actual crime: | Shown below (possible spoiler) |
| Summary: | The wife of a rich man sees him at the window of an opium den. When she investigates, she finds no trace of her husband except for a present he had bought. | ||
- Introduction
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The wife of a rich man, Neville St Clair, spots her husband at the window of an opium den. When she and some policemen investigate, they find nobody inside apart from a beggar, the owner of the building and his assistant. However they find a present that he had intended to buy and his overcoat in the river.
Holmes is engaged to find the man.
- Actual crime
- Deceipt
- Explanation (spoiler alert)
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St Clair and the beggar were the same man. He found that he could earn more by begging so he deceived his wife, pretending to go off to a genuine job.
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- Characters in this story (8)
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Surname First name Title Boone Hugh Bradstreet Inspector Holmes Sherlock Morstan Mary St Clair Neville Watson John Doctor Whitney Isa Whitney Kate
- Locations in this story (2)
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Location Town/City County Swandam Lane opium den London The Cedars Lee Kent
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- Keywords
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Whitney Elias opium Kate Upper Swandam Cedars Neville Clair bricks Lascar Hugh Boone beggar Gladstone wash Bradstreet