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The Man With the Twisted Lip
"It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow, I can get nothing to go upon.
There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I can't get the end of it in my hand."
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"The front room was plainly furnished as a sitting-room, and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide, but is covered at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below."
"Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of his coat."
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Sketch of scene of second floor of the "Bar of Gold"
Sunday, June 19, 1887
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The Man with the Twisted Lip, one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the sixth of the twelve stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The story was first published in the Strand Magazine in December 1891.
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