London Road was briefly mentioned in “The Man With the Twisted Lip” just before Holmes and Watson discovered St.Clair’s/Boone’s duplicitous nature. In the story, Holmes and Watson are leaving London Road, possibly foreshadowing St. Clair’s means for sustaining and attaining his wealth.

Important themes present within “The Man With the Twisted Lip” are the value that people place in appearances and the importance that appearance holds when people consider being presented to society. While not ideal and duplicitous, St. Clair’s dual identity as Boone allows him to indulge the rich while he slowly becomes one of them.

Neville St. Clair could be seen as a twisted version Batman because, like Bruce Wayne, he uses his dual identity to become a different person.

The distance and use of the word ‘dashing’ could foreshadow St. Clair returning to his humble beginnings and fall from grace (but not wealth).

This map shows that proximity to London Road greatly decided a person’s socioeconomic status, as the well-to-do were the closest to the street. As a person’s distance from the street grew, however, the surrounding socioeconomic statuses varied. Possibly due to the Road’s wealth, the few crimes that took place on it were theft.