Sherlock Holmes :: Essays Papers

Sherlock HolmesThe Man with the deformed LipIn this short story, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mr. Neville St. Clair has been kidnapped. His wife is in townspeople one day and she sees him hanging outside of a window. As she looks up at him, he lets out a scream and is yanked back into the elbow room from where he stands. She is very concerned about seeing her married man in this situation and thinks that he is in trouble. She runs to the entrance of the building that she saw him stand up in and she tries to get upstairs to where he is and help him. She is stopped by the doorman and not allowed access to the upstairs. Once the police get to the scene, they lighter into the upstairs area and discover that Mr. Neville St. Clair is not in the room. The only soul in the room is a beggar man named Hugh Boone. Everyone is familiar with Boone because he sits in the city and begs for a living. The police demand an explanation on where St. Clair is and there is not one given by Boo ne or the doorman. On the backside of the building there was a body of water that at high tide came up to the bottom of the lone window in the room. Traces of telephone circuit were found on the window seal of this window and drops of blood on the floor. The clothing of St. Clair was found in the corner of the room and his finish was found in the water at the bottom of the window. The assumption was make that Boone killed St. Clair and the body was disposed of in the water. The police detained Boone but the body was not found. Sherlock Holmes was interested in finding the body.Holmes, along with Watson, went to the St. Clair home and interviewed Mrs. St. Clair. Holmes admitted to Mrs. St. Clair that the he thought her husband might still be living. She agreed with undischarged anticipation and told her that the most startling thing had happened to her that day. It was three days since the fade of her husband and she had received a letter dated AFTER her husbands disappe arance. Holmes asked to see the letter so he could examine it.