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

1st reasoning
The following quote shows that the victims of the murder where infact, males, This quote shows that the victim of the murder was infact, a husband [who is male], "Mary Maloney was waiting for her husband to come home from work.
 * Lamb to Slaughter

Now and again she would glance up at the clock, but without anxiety, merely to please herself with the thought that each minute gone by made it nearer the time when he would come. There was a slow smiling air about her, and about everything she did. The drop of a head as she bent over her sewing was curiously tranquil. Her skin--for this was her sixth month with child--had acquired a wonderful translucent quality, the mouth was soft, and the eyes, with their new placid look, seemed larger darker than before. When the clock said ten minutes to five, she began to listen, and a few moments later, punctually as always, she heard the tires on the gravel outside, and the car door slamming, the footsteps passing the window, the key turning in the lock. She laid aside her sewing, stood up, and went forward to kiss him as he came in.

"Hullo darling," she said. "Hullo darling," he answered.", (Dahl 1)

....and later on, to the call to 911 over Patrick Maloney's death, ""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. The car came very quickly, and when she opened the front door, two policeman walked in. She know them both-she know nearly all the man at that precinct-and she fell right into a chair, then went over to join the other one, who was called O'Malley, kneeling by the body. "Is he dead?" she cried. "I'm afraid he is. What happened?"", (Dahl 1)
 * The Landlady

The following quote shows that Billy is a business man in, "Billy was seventeen years old. He was wearing a new navy-blue overcoat, a new brown trilby hat, and a new brown suit, and he was feeling fine. He walked briskly down the street. He was trying to do everything briskly these days. Briskness, he had decided, was the one common characteristic of all successful businessmen. The big shots up at Head Office were absolutely fantastically brisk all the time. They were amazing.", (1)

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5th reasoning
The following quote shows that the murderers were females in This shows how Mary Maloney giggles at one of the investigator's comment because she is, in-fact, the killer and they don't even know about it [Mary is a girl name, thus implying that the murderer is female], ""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). The following quote shows the last couple of lines of the story, which describes Billy's last moments of life [she added cyanide into Billy's tea, thus causing his death, and these lines show the word "her", implying the person who put the dangerous liquid into Billy's tea was a female], "“No, thank you,” Billy said. The tea tasted faintly of bitter almonds, and he didn’t much care for it. “You did sign the book, didn’t you?” “Oh, yes.” “That’s good. Because later on, if I happen to forget what you were called, then I can always come down here and look it up. I still do that almost every day with Mr Mulholland and Mr . . .Mr...” “Temple,” Billy said. “Gregory Temple. Excuse my asking, but haven’t there been any other guests here except them in the last two or three years?” Holding her teacup high in one hand, inclining her head slightly to the left, she looked up at him out of the corners of her eyes and gave him another gentle little smile.
 * Lamb to Slaughter
 * The Landlady

“No, my dear,” she said. ‘Only you.'", (5)

The author states this in the book, "The old girl is slightly dotty, Billy told himself" (2), which implies the "old girl" is a female, which turns out to be the murderer later on in the book.