Sleuths and Their Sidekicks

"If You Were Here
You'd Be Holmes Now"
Ulysses Poe
chemical marker on
copy paper
8 1/2' by 11"

     Today's guest posting comes 
mostly from Erudite in Evanston. 

Dupin et moi,

Dupin et moi:

one ratiociner,

one je ne sais quoi.

Mr. Keene, Mike,

Mr. Keene, Mike:

one tracer of persons,

one stage-Irish tyke. 

Brown ’n’ Flambeau,
Brown ’n’ Flambeau:
one nondescript cleric,
one thief cum chateau.

Joe and/or Frank,
Joe and/or Frank:
one total cipher,
one complete blank. 


Carrados ’n’ Louis,
Carrados ’n’ Louis:
one stone cold blind,
one brief; then...blooey!

Spade ’n’ Archer,

Spade ’n’ Archer,

one gets the dingus,

one takes departure.

     
     With a pair of variants 
(one present tense, one past)
from PlaysWell's editor:

Archer ‘n’ Spade,

Archer ‘n’ Spade:

one draws the dingus,

one death, I’m afraid.

Archer ‘n’ Spade,

Archer ‘n’ Spade:

one bagg'd a birdie,

one Brigid waylay’d.