The landlady genre

The Landlady

The landlady is a mystery, realistic fiction and suspense story.

"The tea tasted faintly of bitter almonds" 
This is mystery because we don't know why it tastes like almonds. Bitter almonds are usually poison.

“It doesn’t look in the least bit dead. Who did it?”
“I did.”

This is mystery, suspense and realistic fiction . It's mystery because it's strange that she stuffed her pets and suspense because we don't know if Billy is in danger or not and what's going to happen to him. It is realistic fiction because people do stuff animals and it is very believable.

"she looked up at him out of the corners of her eyes and gave him another gentle little smile.
“No, my dear,” she said. ‘Only you.'" 
This is suspense because we don't know what happened after the book ends.

"Billy Weaver had travelled down from London on the slow afternoon train, with a change at Swindon on the way, and by the time he got to Bath it was about nine o’clock in the evening and the moon was coming up out of a clear starry sky over the houses opposite the station entrance."
Billy is a very believable character and could actually exist and the setting of the story is very believable story. This is realistic fiction because it's very believable.