These five short stories offer a selection of Dahl's adult writing. "Parson's Pleasure" is a country tale, "A Piece of Cake", a wartime reminiscence, "Lamb to the Slaughter" a story of vengeful murder, and the remaining two, set in London, are on favourite themes of greed and snobbery.

These stories are taken from: The Collected short stories of Roald Dahl.

Parson's pleasure -- A piece of cake -- Lamb to the slaughter -- The bookseller -- The butler.