The City of Light is also the city of the night — the city of the poor, outcasts, criminals, prostitutes, eccentrics and the wilfully nonconforming. TP O’Mahony leafs through Luc Sante’s salute to his beloved Paris

The two men were found dead at the bottom of an elevator shaft in a 12-storey building, as if dumped there, one sprawled on top of the other.