Devoted, or disloyal.

"The way up to heaven" is a story full of suspense, which is introduced when Mrs. Foster decides to leave her husband at home stuck in their elevator so she wouldn't be late for her plane to Paris. Mrs. Foster doesn't like to be late for any kind of gathering or occasion and her husband knows about her problem, but insists on leaving right when their suppose to be their. Mr. Fosters actions irritate his wife, but she never gets him out of his study to hurry up, she knew better than that. The author describes that Mrs. Foster as a good loving wife to him, but in the end she ends up leaving him stranded in the elevator while she's on her six week vacation to Paris for a visit with her daughter and grandchildren. This story is an example of poetic justice, the police would never think of Mrs. Foster, loving house wife, to kill her own husband. So she gets away with murder, because of her nerves of being late.

Is it a mystery...? or is it suspense.?

I think this story is more of a mystery than a suspense, because the cops don't know what exactly happened to Ms. Maloney's husband, and since they ate the murder weapon they'll never find out. This story is an example of a dramatic irony, the readers know something that the characters in the story don't. In the beginning of the story Ms. Maloney seems like a loving housewife, who takes care of her husband. When Mr. Maloney comes home from work and refuses to eat supper or anything his wife asked him he confesses whats on his mind, and that was that he's divorcing her. She over reacted and hit him over the head with the lamb leg that was for dinner. Covering up her tracks Ms. Maloney puts the lamb into the oven and goes upstairs to clean up and go to the grocery store. When she calls the police after she gets back from shopping she acts like she doesnt know what happened and that she loved her husband. This shows that even though Ms. Maloney acted like the perfect house wife, she decieved her husband. The red herring is found in the very beginning of the story, when Ms. Maloney is made out to seem like a loving wife to her husband. This is an example of poetic justice because even tho she killed her husband she got away with it.