why don't more authors kill with undercooked food?

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Bryan James

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Hamburger Helper can be very good. In my house it never makes it to frozen. No leftunders.

We like the Stroganoff (no selfsex jokes necessary), and I add onion, green bell, and fresh peas (at the finale), maybe a plop of sour cream upon service.

It is easy and:
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This thread reminds me of a tv episode of Alfred Hitchcock, I think it was. The wife murdered her husband with a frozen roast, then cooked it and served to the detectives. I guess frozen would definitely count as undercooked, wouldn't you say?
Hey! I just bought the book today called The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry. The very first chapter starts out with this and it's called Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl. (It fits into the story of this book) but I thought of you saying this! What a coinky dink!
 

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Hey! I just bought the book today called The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry. The very first chapter starts out with this and it's called Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl. (It fits into the story of this book) but I thought of you saying this! What a coinky dink!
I could be wrong! I may have been thinking of the story. My memory isn't what it used to be.
 

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I could be wrong! I may have been thinking of the story. My memory isn't what it used to be.

Roald Dahl (one of my other favorite authors) did indeed write "Lamb to the Slaughter," where the wife kills her husband (she's pregnant and he lets her know that he's leaving her) with a frozen leg of lamb, and then she throws it in the oven. When the cops come (the husband is also a cop, and his fellow officers feel bad for her. She really wants them to stay and eat this Last Supper she prepared for her husband. They do so, with gusto.) they take care of the evidence and she gets off.

It is also the story that was seen on The Twilight Zone.
 
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Dana Jean

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I could be wrong! I may have been thinking of the story. My memory isn't what it used to be.
No, you were right. It was an old hitchcock or one of those old short story shows, but the original story was a Roald Dahl, and it definitely was adapted for the small screen because I saw what you're talking about. I just thought it was so weird that we were just talking about this. And this book is new out as of April 1!

edited to add: jacksawyer says it was an old twilight zone.
 

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This post reminds me of something off-topic. I think a character in some novel killed someone with a gun which fired bullets of ice, making the gun impossible to trace and the murder weapon impossible to identify.
Thats a classical trick for looked room mystery at the so called golden age of crime. Didn't do be bulletts could be knives or anything sharp. You lured him into the romm, locked all the entrances and now were waiting for the icedagger to appear, from a clock, from roof. When it does all the cops has is a dead body and 8 witnesses that all say the samme thing. he was in there alone. But the murderveapon is gone. Ice tend to melt away, Åh, those were the days!! Sigh. Sorry to get a little nostalgic in the midst of everythinh.
 
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