[PW] Unique Murder Weapons

[Brian Whatcott]

At 10:52 AM 4/7/2008, you wrote:
>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
>
>
>--
>Nichael Cramer


I was admiring the tree limb chipper that hooks up to the tractor at the
ranch where my horse pastures.  Father Duggan was reminiscing about the
  farmer who fed his wife into such a device, which blew the resulting
  chips into the river.
  It happened that at least one tooth was recovered, and this was
apparently sufficient to identify the criminal.
Which led him to remark: "Women, Can't live with them:
can't live without, by shredding them..."
:-)


Brian Whatcott    Altus OK    Eureka!