There is scenes in the story that have a situational irony. Like in the beginning of the story when the Mary Maloney, the “perfect” wife, was waiting for her husband to come home to make him dinner. She was really nice to him until then she killed him because the husband wanted to leave. Readers expected that the man was going to do the crime instead of the wife. In the ending, the detectives are looking for the weapon that they could’ve used to kill the detective ,but the wife cooks the leg of the lamb and the detectives end up eating it. So now the crime won’t we be solved because the weapon that the wife used to kill her husband which was the leg of the lamb. In this scene, a detective said “get the weapon, and you’ve got the man”.
