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

Comparing short stories- lamb to the slaughter and the speckled band====================================================================Lamb to the Slaughter was written by Roald Dahl in 1954 shortly afterwardthe Second World War. Roald Dahl is famous for writing childrensstories, like Charlie and the 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 cook lamb for their supper but withoutwarning strikes her husband over the head with it. She then goes toher local shop to pretend an Alibi. When the police come round toinvestigate she offers them the lamb which she killed her husbandwith. And without knowing it is the murder weapon the police eat theleg of lamb, destroying the evidence.Sir Arthur Conan Doy le wrote The Speckled Band in 1892. His stories are about the famous detective Sherlock Holmes set in late Victorianand early Edwardian England. The speckled band is about a man, pay offGrimesby Roylott who tries to kill his stepdaughters using a poisonoussnake to climb through a ventilator and down a bell rope so that hedoes non have to pay for their weddings with the inheritance that hislate wife gave him. Sherlock Holmes and his companion 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 back 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 similar because they some(prenominal) have victims PatrickMaloney being one and Helen Stoner being the other.They both have murderers bloody shame Maloney murdered her husband. Dr.Roylott d id not directly murder Julia stoner but as he planned for asnake to kill her, he is still the murderer.They both have detectives Sherlock Holmes and Jack Noonan----------------------------------------------------------Murder mysteries have changed a lot since Victorian times. Now thereis technology 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.