Lamb to the Slaughter

The amazing short story Lamb of the Slaughter cleverly writen by the well known british author Roald Dahl. This is a short story is about a seemingly happily married couple who are the Maloneys. The writer goes onto great detail describing the main character Mary Maloney he desribes her as a gently, warm,caring and a loving person towards other people and especially to husband Patrick Maloney. It was coming up to ten minutes to …

…on the floor. When the two officers arrived Jack and O'Malley she fell into the of jack she then moved a chair near O'Mally she cried is he dead he said I'm afaid so Mrs Maloney. Then the other officer asked her what had happaned she said I went to the grocery shop to get so potatoes and a can of paes when I arrived home I found laying there on the floor face down.