Joseph Payne Brennan's extraordinary psychic investigator, Lucius Leffing is with us again And again The Adventures of Lucius Leffing rewards us with thirteen tales of the unusual, sometimes psychic sleuth Lucius Leffing. Together with his confidant/chronicler -- who is none other than Brennan himself -- Lucius Leffing has a fondness for times Victorian and cases bizarre.Leffing has been likened to Sherlock Holmes but he is hardly a pastiche. His small home at seven Autumn Street, New Haven, where he collects antique glass and sips cold sarsaparilla, and good brandy, exists in a contemporary world, and many of his cases are part of the present.