Lamb to the Slaughter by Ronal Dahl

     You don't know what is going to happen to you. Nobody knows what will happen to them. It can be good thing and it can be terrible thing. Do you believe your life can finish happily? In "Lamb to the Slaughter" author Ronal Dahl shows something that you can not even imagine could happen and how it is elaborate.

     The main character Mary Maloney was waiting for his husband Patrick Maloney. After he came home, Patrick was in bad condition. Mary tried to do anything for her husband. He told bad news his wife. She shocked and she didn't want to believe. After her husband went to upstairs, she got a leg of lamb from freezer. Then, she took it to the upstairs. She walked up behind him and without any pause she swung. What was the bad news that Patrick said? What did she hear from her husband? I don't think it was bad as she kill him.
     She might just as well have hit him with a steel club. She told herself "So, I've killed him". She carried the meat into the kitchen and placed in a pan. Then she washed her hands. She sat down before the mirror and practice her face looks naturally. She went to grocery shop. She talked with the man who was behind the counter. Maybe she tried to make an alibi because she could set up the alibi if the detectives and policeman think she is a suspect. Then she came back to home and called police station. She said "Quick! Come quick! Patrick's dead!"like she didn't know anything. She said in surprise and urgently like her plan.
     Two policemen , a doctor and two detectives walked into her home. A police photographer took pictures. The detectives kept asking her a lot of questions. She told her story, this time right from the beginning, when Patrick had come in, and she was sewing and he was tried, so tried he hadn't wanted to go out for supper, She told how she'd put the meat in the oven and she'd slipped out to the grocer for vegetables, and come back to find him lying on the floor. The detectives said Patrick was attacked with big spanner. They didn't even think about the lamb. She wanted to remove the lamb that she swung to her husband. She asked them to eat the lamb because she knew that they're hungry. THey ate the lamb. They didn't sense the lamb that they're eating was the weapon she used.
   At important point of the story is the main character planned elaborately and she acted naturally. Also, she destroyed the evidence clearly. The story shows how the main character planned her crime clearly without fail.