Alexander "Chimp" Twist
A small weedy American, when we first meet him in Sam the Sudden, Mr Twist is sporting a small waxed moustache and operating from a fourth-floor office in Tilbury Street, opposite the Tilbury House office of Lord Tilbury. From there he runs the Tilbury Detective Agency under the pseudonym of "J. Sheringham Adair", which claims to have a "Large and Efficient Staff", but in fact is a mere front for Mr Twist's various shady activities. His nickname, by which he is known to both the criminal and law-enforcement communities of his native America, is short for chimpanzee, an allusion to a slightly simian trend in his features. He likes to think of himself as a man of ideas.
He also appears in Money for Nothing, Money in the Bank, Ice in the Bedroom, and Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin.
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