Question

what is the suspected murder weapon in lamb to the slaughter

Answer 1

In Roald Dahl's short story "Lamb to the Slaughter," the suspected murder weapon is a leg of lamb. The protagonist, Mary Maloney, kills her husband with it in a moment of rage. After the murder, she cleverly cooks the leg of lamb and serves it to the detectives who come to investigate, thus disposing of the evidence while they unknowingly eat the very weapon used in the crime.