The Casebook of Lucius Leffing

✍ Scribed by Macdonald, Neal;Brennan, Joseph Payne

• Publisher: Macabre House
• Year: 1973
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 305 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: New Haven, Conn.

✦ Synopsis

From the inside flap

Lucius Leffing, private detective and psychic investigator, was introduced to entranced readers in issue number twelve of Macabre in 1963, in a story entitled “The Haunted Housewife.” (In that same year he was briefly mentioned in another story, “In the Very Stones”, which appeared in the Macabre House book, Scream at Midnight , but he was not actually a protagonist in that story.) He appeared as the leading character in two more eerie detective stories published in Macabre. Subsequently, his investigative adventures were featured in thirteen additional tales published either in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine or in Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine.

THE CASEBOOK OF LUCIUS LEFFING brings together all sixteen published Leffing stories, plus one adventure which has never before appeared in print.

Leffing, who fervently wishes that he had lived in Victorian times, may seem a trifle old-fashioned to a few readers, but his appeal will be great and lasting to the hosts of those who, figuratively speaking, devour the classic cases of Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, August Derleth’s Solar Pons, Algernon Blackwood’s John Silence and William Hope Hodgson’s Carnacki.

Here, then, is a veritable feast for detective-story addicts, as well as for all aficionados of the bizarre, the macabre and the mysterious.

These seventeen stories will establish Lucius Leffing’s reputation as one of literature’s leading sleuths, in spheres both mundane and unearthly.

✦ Subjects

Fiction