Acrostic

A poem in which the first letters of each line spell out MIDSUMMER NIGHT

Midsummer night! Midsummer Worthy! Murder.

Inspector Barnaby is on the case

Devona must have screamed, had no one heard her –

Spotted something odd about the place?

‘Useless asking me,’ says Gertrude Grundy,

‘Me too,’ agrees the major with a sigh,

‘Miss Gertrude spent the night with me on Monday,

Everyone will back our alibi.’

Ruthlessly the sleuth continues prying,

Never is the shrewd inspector wrong.

In the end he proves the pair are lying,

Gertrude has been guilty all along,

Her sentence - Life – shows justice can be done

Two years she’ll serve, or with parole, just one.