 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.