[PW] Unique Murder Weapons

[Nichael Cramer]

Linda J. Wadman wrote:
>http://www.webrary.org/rs/flbklists/toaster.html

 From the webpage:
>ROALD DAHL Lamb to the Slaughter(1953)
>Short story, first published in the September 1953 issue of 
>Harper's, about a wife who kills her husband by battering him with a 
>frozen leg of lamb, then later feeds the evidence to the 
>investigating officers. Alfred Hitchcock's favourite Dahl story. In 
>over 20 collections, including The Collected Short Stories of Roald 
>Dahl (1992); Someone Like You (1969); and Lamb to the Slaughter and 
>Other Stories (1995), along with 'The Bookseller,' 'The Butler,' 
>'Parson's Pleasure,' and 'A Piece of Cake.' Available online.

I wasn't involved in the original thread and was considering 
submitting this story
(until the the webpage was posted).

As may have been mentioned in the original discussion the story was used as
one of the episodes on Hitchcock's TV show (which is where I saw it --I still
remember the wonderfully demented-betty-crocker-homemaker's smile on
the wife's face as she served the lamb to the detectives).

In any case, how wonderful to discover that this was a Roald Dahl story.

N


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