Comparing short stories- lamb to the slaughter and the speckled band Es

Comparing short stories- lamb to the whipstitch and the speckled sight==================================================================== beloved to the Slaughter was written by Roald Dahl in 1954 shortly by and bythe Second World War. Roald Dahl is famous for writing childrensstories, like Charlie and the drinking chocolate factory and James and theGiant Peach. Roald Dahl also writes stories for adults. Lamb to theslaughter is a fine example of an adult murder mystery story. Lamb tothe slaughter is about a housewife waiting for her husband to come.When he does return home, he gives her bad news. Dazed by this news,she goes to the freezer to alter lamb for their supper but withoutwarning strikes her husband over the head with it. She so goes toher local shop to cr dischargee an Alibi. When the police come round to investigate she offers them the lamb which she obliterateed her husbandwith. And without knowing it is the murder weapon the police eat theleg of lamb, destroying t he evidence.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote The Speckled Band in 1892. His storiesare about the famous researcher Sherlock Holmes set in late Victorianand early Edwardian England. The speckled band is about a man, DoctorGrimesby Roylott who tries to kill his stepdaughters apply a poisonoussnake to climb through a breathing machine and down a bell rope so that hedoes not have to pay for their weddings with the inheritance that hislate wife gave him. Sherlock Holmes and his assort Doctor Watsoninvestigate this crime and prevent Doctor Roylotts stepdaughter,Helen Stoner from beingness killed by staying in her bedroom and hittingthe snake. But the snake went choke off into Doctor Roylotts room, bitingand killing him.In lamb to the slaughter, Dahl m... ...ywe do not find out what happened until the end of the story.These stories are also alike because they both have victims PatrickMaloney being one and Helen Stoner being the other.They both have murderers Mary Maloney murdered her hu sband. Dr.Roylott did not directly murder Julia stone but as he planned for asnake to kill her, he is still the murderer.They both have detectives Sherlock Holmes and Jack Noonan---------------------------------------------------------- execution mysteries have changed a lot since Victorian epochs. Now thereis applied science that could pick things up for example the poison of thesnake could not be detected in the speckled band but if it were in thetime of lamb to the slaughter, scientists would probably have pickedthat up. Women would not be likely to be murders in Victorian timesbut now that is quite common.