The famous old soldier killed by a loose Venetian chandelier

The man in vegetable oils opening a fish restaurant in Paris

The black-clad investigator selling the latest key to dreams

The suffering “word-snuffer” messing around in old bookshops

The domino-playing rodent who feasted on dried-out Edam rind

Robinson Crusoe leading a very decent life style on his isle

An international thief taken to be a high-ranking magistrate

The widow with her souvenirs wrapped in old weekly magazines

The Woods & Water Dept. official opens a sanctuary for birds

The billionaire sporting knickerbockers to practice painting

The Paraguayan odd-job man, getting ready to ignite a letter

Austrian customers getting just the steamiest “Turkish Bath”

The daughter’s sad reveries, at the side of her father’s bed

The one-armed officer after the bombardment of General H.-Q.

The fat, sausage-eating couple keeping their wireless set on

The impatient Italian violinplayer who riled his miniaturist

The poet who went on a pilgrimage shipwrecked at Arkhangelsk

The nurse casually leafing through a shiny new photomagazine

1% sacrificed to art by the MD of a world-wide hotel company

The cook’s refusal of an oven with the self-cleansing device