Considering Mary above suspicion, the police conclude Patrick was killed by an intruder with a large blunt object, likely made of metal. When the policemen (who are all friends of her husband) arrive, they ask Mary questions and look at the scene.
Upon her return to the house and to the room where her husband lies dead on the floor, she acts surprised and starts crying, then calls the police. After practicing a cheerful mask and some innocuous remarks to make in conversation, she visits the grocer and chats blandly with him about what to make for Patrick's dinner.
She prepares the leg of lamb and places it in the oven to destroy the evidence, then considers an alibi. Thinking about her unborn child, she decides to cover up the murder. Mary realizes Patrick is dead and begins, coldly and practically, to think about what to do. While he is looking out of the window, Mary suddenly strikes Patrick in the back of the head with the frozen leg of lamb, killing him instantly. Patrick, his back to Mary, angrily calls to her not to make him any dinner, as he is going out. Seemingly in a trance, Mary fetches a large leg of lamb from the deep freezer in the cellar to cook for their dinner. Although it is not explicitly stated, it is suggested that Patrick has asked for a divorce as he states she "will be looked after." When he returns, Mary notices he is uncharacteristically aloof. Mary Maloney is a pregnant housewife waiting for her husband, Patrick, to return home from his job as a police officer. The story was suggested to Dahl by his friend Ian Fleming: "Why don't you have someone murder their husband with a frozen leg of mutton which she then serves to the detectives who come to investigate the murder?" Plot "Lamb to the Slaughter" demonstrates Dahl's fascination with horror (with elements of black comedy), which is seen in both his adult fiction and his stories for children.
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The narrative element of the housewife killing her husband and letting the policemen partake in eating the evidence was used by Pedro Almodóvar in his 1984 movie What Have I Done to Deserve This?, with a leg of mutton. Dahl included it in his short story compilation Someone Like You.
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The story was adapted for Dahl's British TV series Tales of the Unexpected. The episode was ranked #59 of the Top 100 Episodes by TV Guide in 2009. Originally broadcast on April 13, 1958, this was one of only 17 AHP episodes directed by Hitchcock. It was adapted for an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (AHP) that starred Barbara Bel Geddes and Harold J. It was initially rejected, along with four other stories, by The New Yorker, but was published in Harper's Magazine in September 1953. " Lamb to the Slaughter" is a 1953 short story by Roald Dahl. John F.For other uses, see Lamb to the Slaughter (disambiguation).The following official DVD releases contain this episode:Īlfred Hitchcock Presents: Season Four - Universal (USA, 2009) Maureen finds out that he knows and kills him with poison. Brett aware of the law dictates the story into a tape recorder. Later in her sleep Maureen confesses to murder. Maureen's husband commits suicide and Maureen marries Paul. She asks a lawyer Paul Brett what to do and is told that she cannot testify against her husband. Maureen Hughes suspects that her husband is a murderer. "A True Account" (also known as "Curtains for Me") was originally broadcast on 07/Jun/1959 as part of the fourth season of Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
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