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
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