"Lamb to the Slaughter" is a 1954 short story by Roald Dahl, about a pregnant housewife Mary Maloney who murdered her husband with a frozen lamb leg and successfully induced the police officers to eat up the weapon. I illustrated a piece of tablecloth and woman's hands doing needlework, to indicate her being a housewife, as well as her being the one weaving this homicide and the lie, holding everything under her control.