Her supreme gift is the art of giving an enigmatic smile, which quite often results in the guilty parties imagining that she has guessed their secrets, and blurting out the truth. She herself, is supremely unaware of her brainy daughter’s help at every step, and tends to imagine that she picks up clues on her own. Madeline Jake’s reputation as a detective owes its fame to the TV watching public who revel in ‘detective writer turned real life sleuth’ TV serials. Jenny, on the other hand, has grown up on her late father’s collection of detective novels, and tales of hands on police investigation and procedure from her uncle Police Detective Bill. As an author, Madeline Jakes is great, but as a ‘hands on’ detective, she hasn’t a clue. Jenny loves her Mom and does not grudge her the acclaim she gets as a great detective. Jennifer Jakes is an unusual teenage sleuth, unusual in the sense that she solves mysteries behind the scenes, manipulating her mother’s role as a well-known mystery writer turned detective in real life.
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