User:Atcovi/In-Text Citation of "A lamb to Slaughter" by Roald Dahl

Falling Action

 * Grocery Shopping
 * The author implies that she goes to the grocery store to imply that she hasn't yet seen her dead husband in "She ran downstairs, took her coat, went out the back door, down the garden, into the street. It wasn't six o'clock yet and the lights were still on in the grocery shop." (Dahl 1)
 * Calls police to alert them of the death of her husband
 * The author states in the first page of the short story, "She know the number of the police station, and when the man at the other end answered, she cried to him, ""Quick! Come quick! Patrick's dead!", "Who's speaking?", "Mrs. Maloney. Mrs. Patrick Maloney.", "You mean Patrick Maloney's dead?", "I think so," she sobbed. "He's lying on the floor and I think he's dead.", "Be right over," the man said." (1), to show the reader the point Mrs. Maloney calls 911 about her husband.
 * Investigation
 * To show the reader that the police are deep into investigation, he says, "In fifteen minutes he was back with a page of notes, and there was more whispering, and through her sobbing she heard a few of the whispered phrases-"...acted quite normal...very cheerful...wanted to give him a good supper...peas...cheesecake...impossible that she..." (1)

Resolution

 * Investigators are clueless and Mrs. Maloney's response
 * The author states the resolution of the story in, ""That's the hell of a big club the gut must've used to hit poor Patrick," one of them was saying. "The doc says his skull was smashed all to pieces just like from a sledgehammer.", "That's why it ought to be easy to find.", "Exactly what I say.", "Whoever done it, they're not going to be carrying a thing like that around with them longer than they need.", One of them belched., "Personally, I think it's right here on the premises.", "Probably right under our very noses. What you think, Jack?", And in the other room, Mary Maloney began to giggle." (1).