Lamb+To+The+Slaughter+Summary

//Lamb To The Slaughter// is a book about a women named Mary who is pregnant when her husband tells her that he is leaving her because he does not love her anymore. Then she goes on a rampage. She goes to the freezer and gets a leg of lamb. She sneaks up behind him and hits him over the head with the frozen lamb. After he falls to  the floor, she puts the lamb in the oven. Then she goes to the grocery store and acts totally normal. She buys more food for dinner. A conversation starts between her and the clerk at the store. She tells him how she is going to go home and make dinner for her husband. When she gets home,     she comes across a horrible sight. Her husband is                 dead on the floor. She freaks out and calls the police. They come and she tells them that she came home from the store and found him dead. They search the house for a              murder weapon. However,t        he police could not find anything. They were in her house for a long time and then Mary begs them to stay and eat dinner. She feeds the police men the leg                of lamb, which was the murder weapon. While they are eating, she over hears    the police talking about how the murder weapon is probably right under their nose but they are not  seeing it. She laughs because the evidence is now gone and she cannot be a suspect because there is no significant evidence. read full story http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/lamb.html