Invites the reader to look at twenty-six paintings from different eras and styles presented in pairs. Each pair lends itself to a story the reader can discover by looking at the paintings in a new way.

Preparing for the finals of the Chunin selection exams, Naruto studies with naughty mentor Jiraiya and struggles to harness the power of the Nine-tailed fox.

Horace Rumpole is one of the underpaid barristers who ply the courtrooms of the Old Bailey, London's criminal court. Each of his trials has both a victory and a defeat in them, his clients who are acquitted often are angrier than those who are found guilty. Rumpole always wins in court, but rarely wins arguments against Mrs. Rumpole, who is affectionately known as "She who must be obeyed."

After a botched bank robbery, the gang meets up in a warehouse, only to suspect that one of them is really a cop.