Various: Part Masters Thirty-Four (2021); v1, 29 Jun 2021
 

Another original anthology of short fiction no longer in copyright in L+70 jurisdictions, including the full-length version of "The Little Old man of Batignolles", by Émile Gaboriau, first published, in French, in 1868.

1: The King's Pipe / H. Bedford-Jones
2: "To Every one His Own Fear" / Meade & Halifax
3: The Cripple at the Mill / Max Pemberton
4: The Hidden Egyptian Shield / Charles J. Mansford
5: Lady Florry's Gems / George Manville Fenn
6: The Dervish of the Nile Pyramid / Charles J. Mansford
7: Murder Needs No Motive / Robert L. Ahern
8: The Talking Horse / F. Anstey
9: A Night in the Kremlin / Clarence Herbert New
10: Bait, Hook and Sinker / William Almon Wolff
11: The Secret of Banda Sea / Clarence Herbert New
12: The Little Old Man of Batignolles / Émile Gaboriau

Past Masters Thirty Four - The Little Old Man of Batignolles
 

Thank you for this, especially "The Little Old Man of Batignolles". Julian Symons, in his book "Bloody Murder", says that "Monsieur Lecoq" is the best of Gaboriau’s novels but “Le Petit Vieux de Batignolles” is undoubtedly his finest piece of work. I have a physical copy of the story but the font is too small for my old eyes, so Past Masters 34 is perfect. Cheers!

The cover (and the post) says "Emil" instead of "Émile". Funnily, your introductory text in the book sort of criticizes that kind of change ;)

Ah well... my ancient Paintshop Pro, used to make the covers, hasn't heard of the extended character set, but forgetting the e on the end of Émile is just just wrong.

I too, cling to my old Paintshop Pro v.9. I am still, all these years later, browned off that they sold out to Corel.

--- Re: extended character set --- as long as I am using a font in PSP to build the graphic that contains the special character, I paste in the character (usually from Sigil, but can also use a character map application), and have no problem getting the diacritics. Maybe the font you are using for these covers is the culprit.