The room was warm and clean, the curtains drawn, the two table lamps alight – hers and the one by the empty chair opposite.
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Lamb to the Slaughter
by Roald Dahl
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Lamb to the Slaughter is a short, sharp, chilling story from Roald Dahl, the master of the shocking tale.
In Lamb to the Slaughter, Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors, tells a twisted story about the darker side of human nature. Here, a wife serves up a dish that utterly baffles the police . . .
-- https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/191998/lamb-to-the-slaughter--a-roald-dahl-short-story-/9781405911030.html
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"Lamb to the Slaughter" is a 1954 short story by Roald Dahl. It was initially rejected, along with four other stories, by The New Yorker, but was published in Harper's Magazine in September 1953.
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