Compare the story "the speckled Band" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with "Lamb to the slaughter" By Roald Dahl. This essay is about a murder

Compare the story "the speckled Band" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with "Lamb to the slaughter" By Roald Dahl.
Written in the 19th century detective stories usually have detectives in. They also have suspects, and victims and sometimes you have sidekicks who are not as clever as the main detective.
In Conan Doyle's story there are some long and difficult words such as 'merely', 'commonplace', and 'retorted'. The first sentence has 77 words in it, the words in the Roald Dahl are not old-Fashioned words but are 20th century words that young people can understand and which they use daily. The f…