Mr. John Clay not only has an aristocratic background as a basis for being a criminal, but he also has the experience to lean on and improve his skills to be the brilliant criminal that he is. “One week he'll be breaking a cradle in Scotland and the next week he'll be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall. I've been tracking him for years and I've never seen him” (49) says Mr. Jones. You might think that because John Clay appears to do good and evil in a short period of time that he is a master of disguise. Behind the scenes no one can see the crimes he commits, but outwardly they see the good deeds. Other people may see kind gestures like raising money for an orphanage and therefore never expect him to be the type to commit crimes. He ultimately created this illusion of living a good life so that no one would suspect that he would do anything other than kind acts. Through experience he improved his skills until he became almost a perfect criminal. Committing crimes made him improve his skills and gain knowledge each time on how to commit a better crime than the previous one