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The Adventure Speckled Band: The Villain
A very core convention that every single crime fiction book must use is a villain. Consequently, all three of the short stories have some sort of villain inside it, although some of the stories use this convention in a unique and satirical approach, such is the case of ‘Lamb to the Slaughter’. Otherwise, the other two short stories use the villain seriously. The behaviour of the villains in the short-stories vary from one to another, for example in ‘The Adventure Speckled Band’ the villain in it has anger-issues and acts on impulse. The villain in ‘Fresh Bait’ can be perceived as a psychopathic egomaniac which is evident as he is implying that he will never be caught, when in fact he has. The villain in ‘Lamb to The Slaughter’ went insane due
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