The Portrayal of Murder in The Speckled Band and Lamb to the Slaughter
The two stories we are comparing are the 1880`s Sherlock Homes murder
mystery tail "The Speckled Band" and the second story is the1900`s
thriller "Lamb to the Slaughter".
The Speckled Band is an on the edge murder mystery tail, this is one
of the many Sherlock Homes tails, it was written by
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the late Victorians 180`s.
Lamb to the Slaughter is a very short thriller, this story was written
by the great child's Author Roald Dahl in the 1950`s.
In this essay we are not comparing the two stories we are comparing
and contrasting the two murders which are.
In "Lamb to the Slaughter" the murderer is Mrs Mary Maloney,
Mrs Maloney is a pretty woman about 5ft with long dark hair and big
brown eyes. She is six months pregnant and is a very loving and caring
woman who is extremely organised. The victim that Mrs Maloney killed
was none other than her Husband Mr Maloney. Mary new that her husband
was having an a affair with another Woman, so when Mr Maloney came
home from work one night Mrs Maloney lashed out and smashed her
husband around the back of his head with an frozen leg of lamb that
she had just taken out of the freezer for supper. Mrs Maloney
immediately put the frozen leg of lamb in the Oven and then called the
police and told them that her husband had been murdered while she was
out. After she killed her husband she went into her bedroom and sat
there for half an hour thinking of what to do and say to the police.
In the end she thought up of a story, she went out of the house 2 get
some Items for the meal when she got back she saw her husband and
called the police. When the police arrived she said that while she was
out he was murdered, the police checked up on that and it was true.
The police tried 2 find the murder weapon around the house and garden
and after there search Mrs Maloney insisted that they ate the food she
had cooked because she was not up to it, so they did the 3 police
officers ate the lamb and the evidence they had spent all day looking
for. So in the end Mrs Maloney made up a story before she called the
police and after she had murdered Mr Maloney and she got away with
murder.
The Second story "The Speckled Band" the murderer was Doctor Grimesby
lied to an inspector telling him, "We got a sick ol' lady. We got to get her to
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In Lamb to the Slaughter, Mary Maloney, doting housewife pregnant with her first child, commits a heinous crime against her husband. After he tells her that he is leaving, she become distraught and strikes him in the head with a leg of lamb. Afterwards, Mary...
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Comparing Roald Dahl’s Lamb to the Slaughter and The Speckled Band by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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