"The lamb to the slaughter" was written in 1952 by Roald Dahl most famous for writing children's stories although he did write adult material such as the book "The lamb to the slaughter featured in "The tales of the unexpected". ... As the times changed so did literature, this was a result of people altering the way they spoke which in turn transferred into writing. ... Although detective stories of today can be extremely different to Sherlock Holmes, Connan Doyle's stories were important as they set the conventions for the detective story genre. ...

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