A short story by this author ends with Billy Weaver drinking tea that tasted “faintly of bitter almonds,” implying that the title character has been killing and taxiderming attractive young men. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this author of macabre short stories like “The Landlady” and “Skin.” This author’s dark humor is better known from his children’s books like Matilda and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
ANSWER: Roald Dahl
[10h] In a Dahl short story named for one of these objects, a woman uses one of these objects to kill her husband after he leaves her, then tricks police into destroying the evidence.
ANSWER: a leg of lamb [accept “Lamb to the Slaughter”; prompt on leg or dinner or meat or bone or food]
[10m] Dahl’s short story “A Piece of Cake” fictionalizes his time in this occupation. Like Dahl, the protagonist of The English Patient with this job ends up stranded in the desert.
ANSWER: pilot [accept RAF pilot; prompt on soldier]
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