This murder weapon is given to two policemen, who suggest that it is “right under our very noses,” before its wielder starts to laugh hysterically. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this murder weapon that Mary Maloney uses to kill her husband Patrick after he asks her for a divorce.
ANSWER: a leg of lamb [prompt on a piece of meat]
[10m] Mary kills Patrick in “Lamb to the Slaughter,” a short story that this author included with “Skin” and “The Landlady” in the collection Tales of the Unexpected.
ANSWER: Roald Dahl
[10e] Dahl’s collection Kiss Kiss features the story “The Champion of the World,” whose child protagonist who rescues his father was added to its title when Dahl reworked it into a full-length novel.
ANSWER: Danny [accept Danny, Champion of the World]
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