Reading short novel.

The characters whit name are: Mary Maloney, Patrick Maloney, Sam, Jack Noonan and O'Malley. Patrick, Jack and O'Malley are police officers, Mary is Patrick's wife and Sam is a grocer. Mary kills Patrick in their own home and goes to the grocery store to get an alibi before calling the cops.

Structure:

1. We are told about how Mary loves her husband and greets him happily when he comes home.

2. Mary is worried by the way Patrick is acting and Patrick tells her that he is leaving her.

3. Mary goes to the kitchen to get a frozen leg of lamb. She then hits Patrick to the back of the head with it killing him.

4. Mary goes to the grocer to get an alibi and goes back home and calls the police about the death of her husband.

5. The police interrogate Mary and find out nothing. They stay to investigate the crime scene and eat the lamb Mary used to kill Patrick with.

Details

1. Patrick Maloney
2. Mary Maloney
3. A frozen leg of lamb
4. Mary fed it to the policemen
5."She loved to luxuriate in the presence of this man, and to feel - almost as a sunbather feels the sun - that warm male glow that came out of him to her when they were alone together. She loved him for the way he sat loosely in a chair, for the way he came in a door, or moved slowly across the room with long strides. She loved the intent, far look in his eyes when they rested on her, the funny shape of the mouth, and especially the way he remained silent about his tiredness, sitting still with himself until the whisky had taken some of it away."
6. "Of course I’ll give you money and see you’re looked after. But there needn't really be any fuss. I hope not anyway. It wouldn't be very good for my job."
7. Patrick was going to leave Mary, so Mary killed him. You can tell from when Patrick says"Of course I’ll give you money and see you’re looked after. But there needn't really be any fuss. I hope not anyway. It wouldn't be very good for my job."
8. Because they know each other.
9. Sam is the grocer.
10. 
11. They heard that Mary had a frozen leg of lamb and they could have thought of it since there was no other heavy weapon near.

Writing task:
I have to leave you Mary. The mafia is after me, because I have too much evidence on them. I also know that they usually don't go for the cops, but their families. So you'll have to go.