Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice all live in the same house. Boband Carol go out to a movie, and when they return, Alice is lying deadon the floor in a puddle of water and glass. It is obvious that Tedkilled her but Ted is not prosecuted or severely punished.

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Alice is a goldfish; Ted is a cat. 

A man is lying dead in a room. There is a large pile of gold and jewels on the floor, a chandelier attached to the ceiling, and a large open window.

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The room is the ballroom of an ocean liner which sank some time ago. The man ran out of air while diving in the wreck. 

A man lives on the twelfth floor of an apartment building. Every morning he takes the elevator down to the lobby and leaves the building. In the evening, he gets into the elevator, and, if there is someone else in the elevator -- or if it was raining that day -- he goes back to his floor directly. Otherwise, he goes to the tenth floor and walks up two flights of stairs to his apartment.

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The man is a dwarf. He can't reach the upper elevator buttons, but he can ask people to push them for him. He can also push them with his umbrella.