Stories / The Man with the Twisted Lip
🧮 Analysis tool — freeThe Beggar's Wage
Compare Hugh Boone's corner against an honest desk — the arithmetic that kept a gentleman in rags.
St Clair confesses the sums: as a reporter he earned £2 a week; one day's begging brought 26 shillings 4 pence. Set the figures and see why the beggar refused to die.
Drawn from The Man with the Twisted Lip (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1891) — read the summary & analysis, or try The Two Lives of Neville St Clair, this story's game. More at the Game Room and the tool bench.