Drabble: Lear's Blind Banker

[sorrel_forbes]

Title: Lear's Blind Banker
Author: sorrel_forbes
Characters: John and Sherlock
Summary: The Blind Banker, as told by Edward Lear.
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Word Count: 100

A City boy sent them a case,
So Sherlock and John went to face
Some smugglers who’d sprayed
Cryptic threats and mislaid
A jade pin that had vanished sans trace.

With evidence misrepresented,
The criminal gang that resented
Consulting detectives
Pursued their objectives
By kidnapping John: gaffe cemented.

For Sherlock not only was smart,
But steadfastly true to his heart;
And his heart was a man
With a uniform tan;
Truly, nothing could keep them apart.

A map book provided the clue,
And though Sherlock came overdue,
Nonetheless his support
Meant the thugs they could thwart;
The hairpin recovering too.

Tennyson's Study in Pink
Lear's Blind Banker
Carroll's Great Game

Stevens' Scandal in Belgravia
Blake's HOUND of Baskerville
Lennon's Reichenbach Trip

Yeats' Empty Hearse