Lamb to the Slaughter The short story is about Mary Maloney, a young woman who’s waiting for her husband, the policeman Patrick Maloney, to come home from work. There is a smiling air about her and about everything she does. She’s pregnant and this is now the sixth month with child. At five o’clock she hears his husband coming home. Mary goes forward to kiss him when he enters. For her, this …showed first 75 words of 515 total…

…showed last 75 words of 515 total…how it could have happened. The policemen look after Mary very well. She offers them a drink and the leg of lamb. They drink some whisky and eat everything, because she wanted them to finish it. While eating, they presume the murder may have killed Patrick with a sledge-hammer. Mary Maloney who’s sitting alone in the living room hears everything and begins to giggle because they’re just eating what they’re searching for.