In "The Man with the Twisted Lip," Sherlock Holmes investigates the sudden disappearance of respectable family man Neville St. Clair, last seen by his wife in the window of an opium den. Suspicion falls on Hugh Boone, a deformed beggar living in the room where St. Clair vanished, but a later letter from the missing man confuses matters. Holmes ultimately uncovers a secret double life: St. Clair discovered he could make far more money disguised as the beggar Boone than in his regular profession, and his "disappearance" was a panicked attempt to hide his profitable secret identity when accidentally spotted by his wife.

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