The Portrayal of Murder in The Speckled Band and Lamb to the Slaughter :: Sherlock Holmes Arthur Doyle Roald Dahl Essays

The Portrayal of Murder in The Speckled Band and Lamb to the SlaughterThe two stories we are comparing are the 1880s private detective Homes collide withmystery tail The Speckled Band and the second bilgewater is the1900sthriller Lamb to the Slaughter.The Speckled Band is an on the edge murder mystery tail, this is oneof the many Sherlock Homes tails, it was written bySir Arthur Conan Doyle in the late Victorians 180s.Lamb to the Slaughter is a very short thriller, this invoice was writtenby the great childs Author Roald Dahl in the 1950s.In this essay we are not comparing the two stories we are comparingand tell apart the two murders which are.In Lamb to the Slaughter the murderer is Mrs Mary Maloney,Mrs Maloney is a pretty woman abtaboo 5ft with long dark hair and big cook eyes. She is six months pregnant and is a very loving and caringwoman who is extremely organised. The victim that Mrs Maloney killedwas none other than her Husband Mr Maloney. Mary new that her savewas havi ng an a affair with another Woman, so when Mr Maloney camehome from work one night Mrs Maloney lashed out and smashed her economise around the back of his head with an frozen(p) leg of lamb thatshe had just taken out of the freezer for supper. Mrs Maloneyimmediately put the frozen leg of lamb in the Oven and then called thepolice and told them that her husband had been murdered while she wasout. After she killed her husband she went into her bedroom and satthere for half an hour thinking of what to do and say to the police.In the end she pattern up of a story, she went out of the house 2 getsome Items for the meal when she got back she saw her husband andcalled the police. When the police arrived she said that while she wasout 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 gardenand subsequently there search Mrs Maloney insisted that they ate the food shehad cooked because she was not up to it, so they did the 3 policeofficers ate the lamb and the evidence they had spent all day lookingfor. So in the end Mrs Maloney made up a story before she called thepolice and after she had murdered Mr Maloney and she got away withmurder.The Second story The Speckled Band the murderer was Doctor Grimesby