The Norwood Builder in Clerihews

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Canon Story: The Adventure of the Norwood Builder
Author: mundungus42
Rating: PG for some grimness
Author's Notes: Better late than never!

Doctor Verner
Had cash to burn-er.
Can you imagine Watson's dismay
To find he'd sold his practice to a Vernet?

John McFarlane
Required no cane,
Perceived a shyster who would kill
A man for an unwitnessed will.

Jonas Oldacre,
Mover and shaker,
He built and hid within a secret room,
To vex his ex by sealing her son's doom.

Scotland Yard
Found it hard
To see beyond Oldacre's clues
Even detectives get the blues.

Britain's birds,
Were heard,
Crowing the sentence Oldacre had gotten-
The cat in the bird cage was never forgotten.

And just for fun...

Holmes said “rabbit”
Out of habit,
To hide his conclusion that those blackened bones
Were all that remained of J. Oldacre's clones.