Lamb to the Slaughter-Singaporean's View

Mary Maloney: Innocent?
It is hard to believe that Mrs. Mary Maloney, gentle and outspoken young woman, would murder her husband, Mr. Patrick Maloney, senior and chief detective. After all, they had been a loving couple since they were married and was going to celebrate their 10th wedding anniversary that day. Mrs. Mary Maloney did all of her household chores as usual and sat on her chair lovingly, waiting for her beloved husband to come home, like any faithful wife would do. She even prepared a glass of whiskey for him as she knew that day would be the most grueling day at work for her husband.
When her husband reached home and opened the door, she stood up and kissed him affectionally and hung his coat for him and watched as he drank half of the strong whiskey in his glass in one go and then drank the remaining whiskey in the glass. At that time, Mary saw his glass was empty and decided to refill his glass with more whiskey for him. Even though Patrick asked her to sit down as he wanted to refill the glass himself, Mary, being a caring wife, still stood up and offered to help him as she wanted him to rest and relax more. After Patrick had drank up his second glass, he signaled for Mary to sit beside him. That day, since Patrick had arrived at home, he was acting strangely and Mary had noticed his behavior but would not have guessed that Patrick was going to leave her. After she heard this, she was very sad but finally recovered and decided to make a lamb leg, Patrick’s favourite meat, for dinner. The thought of Patrick leaving her hurt her feelings, but after all, she wanted the last dinner with Patrick to be perfect and did not want him to be starved from work. As she placed the lamb leg into the oven, she suddenly remembered that the toppings that went with the leg of lamb was missing and decided to visit Sam the grocer to buy some food. At the grocery, Mary bought the toppings for the leg of lamb and even bought Patrick’s favourite cheesecake.
As she reached home, she was shocked to see Patrick lying on the floor, with blood flowing out from a wound on his head, breathless. She cried her heart out as she still loved him very much although he left her. She quickly dialed for the police and they arrived within minutes. After the thorough search, the detectives still did not find the killer and the murder weapon. As the hours go by, they became weary and hungry. Mary, being a kind woman, immediately offered the leg of lamb and some of the leftover whiskey for them to drink and rest for a while. After offering the leg of lamb to the detectives, Mary went back to her bedroom saw their wedding picture and was reminded of how much he loved her. She started crying and covered the weeping sound with pillows as she did not want the policemen to hear them and stop resting to comfort her. The police might have mistaken those crying sounds as giggling and arrested her for committing the murder as there was no evidence to anyone else committing the crime and Mary was the top suspect. Poor Mary, it’s not her fault, after all, she wouldn’t even hurt a fly.
Written by:
Alexander Nicolas (01)
Bryan Soon (03)
Lim Dae Koon (16)
Yuan Xinran Stanley (31)