a/n: 5 canon tales referred to in limerick form. I will leave you to work out which ones:-)
Holmes and companions do not belong to me.
1/
An engineer blithely ignored
Hidden motives behind his reward.
He found to his cost
That his wages were lost
And his thumb, alas, wasn't insured.
2/
A great deal of fear and distress
Was the fate of this young governess.
She'd have kept all her hair
If she'd taken more care
And accepted a job which paid less.
3/
An employer in love greatly feared,
When his criminal friends interfered,
That they might try to meddle
With the girl who could pedal:
So he followed her round, in a beard.
4/
An eager young clerk, to his shame,
Didn't question his new boss's game.
The pay seemed so nice
That he failed to ask twice.
Now a major bank crime's in his name.
5/
There's a terrible price to be paid
If you jilt a young fiery Welsh maid;
For she knows a trap door
Can fall back to the floor
And that screams under stone quickly fade.
a/n2:Limerick-a 5 line poem, popularised by Edward Lear. First 2 lines rhyme with last one. Lines 3 and 4 rhyme with each other.