Hugh Boone Disguise

The 'Hugh Boone Disguise' refers to the cunning alias adopted by Neville St. Clair in Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The Man with the Twisted Lip,' a short story from the second book in the Sherlock Holmes series, 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.' This disguise, portraying a disfigured beggar named Hugh Boone, allows St. Clair to beg on the streets of London while secretly amassing wealth to support his family. Sherlock Holmes unravels the deception, revealing it as one of the most ingenious cases of false identity in the canon, with no further evolution or recurrence in subsequent books.