When Helen arrives in Holmes place Holmes senses that Helen has been frightened into a state of nervous exhaustion. She looks terrible. Her emotional state has made her old before her time. This is the quote that supports hr emotional sate and nervous exhaustion “Her features and figures were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot with premature gray, and her expression was weary and haggard.
Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, all-comprehensive glances."
As Helen tells the story Holmes notices that something else about Helen Stoner, something that is very disturbing, he sees evidence of physical abuse as well. He asks her about her bruised wrist, which indicates that her stepfather, Dr. Roylott has gotten physically violent with her. "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own strength." This is s the quote that shows Dr.Roylett is violent.
As Holmes went to investigate about the Dr. Roylott house his home "the windows were broken, and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly caved in, a picture of ruin." The main section of the house is nearly as decayed, with only one wing properly maintained. The estate is covered with brambles and surrounded by a wall with "unrepaired breaches." Like the house, Roylott's life has decayed. It shows that after losing his friend and wife he has been cold to others. After checking outside the house Holmes snuck inside Dr. Roylott bedroom to investigate. As Holmes finish investigating he says that he has already deduced the solution to the mystery and that this test of his theory turns out to be successful. They hear the whistle, and Holmes also sees what the bell cord is really for, although Watson does not. Julia's last words about a "speckled band" were in fact describing "a swamp adder, the deadliest snake in India". The venomous snake had been sent to Julia's room by Dr. Roylott to murder her. After the swamp adder bit Julia he called off the snake with the whistling, which made the snake climb up through the bell cord, disappearing from the scene.
Now Holmes finds that the swamp adder is sent again to kill Julia's sister Helen. Holmes attacks the snake, sending it back through an air ventilator connected to the next room. The angry snake bites Dr. Roylott instead, and, within seconds, he is dead. Grimly noting that he is indirectly responsible for Dr. Roylott's death, Holmes remarks that he is unlikely to feel much regret because of it.
The Red Headed league focuses about the London pawnbroker named Jabez Wilson, a man with "fiery red hair," comes to Holmes and Watson. Wilson has come to Holmes with a problem concerning an organization for which he was working but that has mysteriously disappeared. Wilson owns a pawnshop but had for the last two months been employed part-time. At Holmes' urging, he tells his story.
Wilson's assistant Vincent Spaulding had pointed out to Wilson a job notice in the newspaper. It was a job sponsored by the Red-Headed League, and only men with red hair need apply. Spaulding convinced Wilson to go to the interview, and because of the bright colour of his hair, Wilson was hired, because none of the other applicants had hair to match Wilson's red locks. He was well-paid, four pounds a week, for several weeks of doing obviously useless clerical busywork in a lonely office, but finally one morning a sign on the locked office door inexplicably announced: "The Red Headed league is dissolved”." Wilson then went to the landlord, who said that he'd never heard of Duncan Ross, the person who formed the league. The landlord did remember the tenant with scarlet hair and gives him a card which directs Wilson to an artificial knee company. He ends the story with how frustrated he is losing the four-pounds-a-week. Holmes and Watson laugh a little over the ridiculous situation, but Holmes assures that by Monday they would have the case solved. After Holmes' client Wilson leaves (having given the detective a description of Spaulding), Holmes decides to go and see Spaulding, whom Holmes notices has dirty trouser knees. Holmes then taps on the footpath in front of the pawnbroker's shop. With the case solved, he calls Inspector Jones and Mr. Merryweather. The four confront the thieves, John Clay and his helper William Morris (they were Spaulding and Ross in disguise), who had contrived the Red-Headed League rigmarole just to keep Wilson out of his shop while they did digging in the basement in order to break into the vault next door. Back at Baker Street, Holmes explains to Watson how he solved the case.
The Man with the twisted lips story is focused on Mr. Neville St. Clair; a respectable and punctual country businessman who has been disappeared. Making the matter even more mysterious is that Mrs. St. Clair is quite sure that she saw her husband at a second-floor window in Upper Swandam Lane, a rather rough part of town near the docks. He withdrew into the window immediately, and Mrs. St. Clair is quite sure that there was something very wrong.
Naturally, she tries to enter the building, but her way was blocked by the owner of the opium den, a . She fetches the police, but they cannot find Mr. St. Clair. The window in which she saw her husband yields only a dirty, ugly , well known to the police, by the name of Hugh Boone. The police are about to put this report down to madness of some kind when Mrs. St. Clair spots and identifies a box of wooden bricks that her husband said he would buy for their son. A further search turns up some of her husband's clothes. Later, his coat, with the pockets full of several of and , is found in the just below the building.
The beggar is arrested and locked up at the police station, and Holmes initially is quite convinced that Mr. St. Clair has been the unfortunate victim of murder. However, several days after Mr. St. Clair's disappearance, his wife receives a letter in his own writing. The arrival of this letter forces Holmes to reconsider his conclusions, leading him eventually to an extraordinary solution. Taking a bath to the police station, Holmes washes Boone's still-dirty face, causing the mess to fall away and his face to be revealed — the face of Neville St. Clair! Upon Mr. St. Clair's immediate confession, this solves the mystery, and also creates a few problems.
It seems that Mr. St. Clair has been leading a double life, one of respectability, and the other as a beggar. In his youth, he had been an before becoming a . In order to research an article, he had disguised himself as a beggar for a short time, during which he was given a very large amount of money. Later in his life, he returned to the street to beg for several days in order to pay a large debt. Given a choice between his newspaper salary and his high beggar earnings, he eventually became a professional beggar. His takings were large enough that he was able to establish himself as a country gentleman, marry well, and begin a respectable family. His wife never knew what he did for a living, and Holmes agrees to preserve Mr. St. Clair's secret as long as no more is heard of Hugh Boone.
The story is unique among Holmes stories in two ways: when the mystery is resolved, it turns out that no crime has been committed and there is no villain; and unlike other stories, Holmes (or in fact, Doyle) does not explain how he solved the mystery, and leaves it to the reader to work out.
In the Man with the twisted lips background themes are mainly focused on an era of Victorian Times in London. The background and the themes suggested that there were poor people living in cramped places while the carriages clattered along and the crime like robbery, murder, prostitution and drug abuse was the problem and as well the London was polluted from smog by factories which created dark, dreary place.
