Lamb To The Slaughter Summary

Triffles is a play in which Mr. Hale and Sherriff Peters are investigating the cause of death of John Wright. Wright appears to have been strangled with a rope and the first suspect in the crime is his wife, Mrs. Wright. In the presence of Mrs. Wight’s friends, Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale, the two men begin searching for leads to the cause of the murder. The two women are fascinated by female stuff in the house and are especially attracted to Mrs. Wright’s unfinished quilt “pulling a knot and ripping the sewing”. They did not know that the knot was the evidence of the crime. On noticing the dead pet canary, the two women unravel the events that unfolded before the death of Mr. Wright. They successfully hide the dead bird and its cage “in Mrs. Hale’s pocket in her big coat” from the male investigators which led to Mrs. Wright escaping justice.
On the other hand, Lamb to the Slaughter is a murder case instinctively executed by Mary Maloney, who is the wife to the deceased Patrick Maloney. Although Mary commits the crime after her husband broke the news about the plan to divorce her, she immediately comes to her senses after hitting him “as hard as she could” with a frozen leg of a lamb. She successfully lays down a plan to deceive the police that she was
While Mrs. Wright is helped by her friends to confiscate the weapon she used to kill her husband, Mary is bold enough to cook the frozen leg of lamb she had used to hit her husband at the back of his head. She further invites the Noonan, the police, and his friend “to eat the dinner she had fixed for her husband”. As Peters and Hale are searching for evidence at the Wright’s house, Mrs. Peters supposes that Mrs. Wright “slipped a rope around his neck that choked the life out of him.” The investigators in both stories are certain that the crime was committed by a person from inside the house, but they lacked the necessary information to link the