The Chronicles of Lucius Leffing

The Chronicles of Lucius Leffing

Cover of the first edition
Author	Joseph Payne Brennan
Illustrator	John Linton
Cover artist	John Linton
Language	English
Series	Lucius Leffing
Genre	Supernatural, Detective short stories
Publisher	Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc.
Publication date	1977
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback)
Pages	253 pp
OCLC	3364239

The Chronicles of Lucius Leffing is a collection of supernatural, detective short stories by Joseph Payne Brennan. It was first published in 1977 by Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc. in an edition of 1,540 copies. The stories feature Brennan's supernatural detective, Lucius Leffing. Many of the stories originally appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine.

Contents

• Foreword, by Frank Belknap Long
• "The Case of the Hertzell Inheritance"
• "The Case of the Mystified Vendor"
• "The Apple Orchard Murder Case"
• "Mem'ries"
• "The Murder of Mr. Matthews"
• "The Possible Suspects"
• "The Dead of Winter Apparition"
• "The Nightmare Face"

References

• Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. p. 324.
• Clute, John; John Grant (1997). The Encyclopedia of Fantasy. New York: St. Martin's Press. p. 139. ISBN 0-88184-708-9.