In Competition No. 2921 you were invited to write a clerihew about a fictional character.
The clerihew is a comic four-line (AABB) biographical poem characterised by metrical irregularity and awkward rhyme. The first line is often the subject’s name. Or, to put it another way:
E.C. Bentley
Quite accidently
Invented this form of wit,
And this is it.
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