Possible Clues:

• Bit of light in study for children's writer
• Writer Charles perhaps taken in by trick
• Original piece of cotton fabric in drawer?
• Stick whose box might have a built-in pencil sharpener
• Chap involved in scam, a colourful writer
• Children's writer Ray in scam
• Wax pen
• Licorice stick, for instance
• Wax art class item
• Cheat catching fish for children's writer?