Sherlock Holmes and the Man with the Twisted Lip

The famous detective Sherlock Holmes is called for another case: a woman called Mrs. Saint Clair says that she saw her husband shouting to her with an expression of horror, in a building on a poor neighbour. When she got in the building, her husband had disappeared. In a room, there were the man's clothes. In the window facing the river, there was blood. The only man who lived in the apartment was a beggar. What happened then to the man?

Sherlock Holmes realizes that the only possible answer is that the beggar and the "victim" are the same person. He decides to visit the poor man, who has been arrested as guilty for the murder of Mr. Saint Clair. The beggar is sleeping, so Sherlock Holmes can put his plan in action: he washes the man's face, making appear Mr. Saint Clair's true face. When the prisionner awakens, he realizes that his true identity has been discovered. Realizing that the only thing he can do is to tell Holmes the truth, he does it. 

Mr. Saint Clair was a student of journalism. Once, he decided to do a reportage about how much money beggars earn per day. He concluded that the best way to discover it was disguising himself as a beggar.  Being very humoristic, Mr. Saint Clair turned in a very popular character of the neighbour where he used to beg for money, earning much more than he earned studying journalism. The man realized that being a beggar was not that bad for him, so he abandoned his job. However, there was a problem: how could he explain it for his family? Mr. Saint Clair kept it a secret. When he saw his wife, he got worried, because she could discover his true job. He changed his clothes for his beggar's and threw them in the lake, by the window. With this fast movements, he cut his hand, which explained the blood.

Satisfied with the story, Holmes tells Mr. Saint Clair not to worry, because he couldn't be accused of anything. With Sherlock authorization, the beggar was freed from prision.