Jenny LeClue – Detectivu opens up on a stormy night in Arthurton with a suspicious, or perhaps normal, individual with a briefcase. He boards a small motorboat and sails off past a murder of crows towards a small sign floating on the river. After a short minigame, you find a long tube stretch upward into your boat. You enter the tube and that?s the last thing you see? before being awoken from the short slumber of a far-too-tired author, Arthur K. Finkelstein.
Arthur is a well known author of the Jenny LeClue books. The books are not selling well and Arthur is being pressured to make them more dramatic and dangerous. After a particularly rage-inducing call, he decides to indeed give them the murder and mystery they?ve all been waiting for. Your first mission in the game is to solve the ?murder? of Jenny LeClue? for your mother?s class. They believed it was an accident but you can prove them wrong. First, you?ll search the crime scene for clues using a first person POV in which you move the camera around and interact with what might be suspicious. A green smudge on her lips, a pool of blood at her head, muddy boots, and a floor that is immaculately clean yet still wet? she didn?t slip on the water, she was poisoned!

After collecting clues, you use them in combinations to deduce answers to questions. The first being ?How did I know the victim didn?t slip?. Much of these moments of deduction are animated in simple little drawings in your notebook and serve well to show t...