Jill Trent, the Science Sleuth, was a female adventurer from an unknown American city. She solved crimes through a combination of her detective skills and scientific ingenuity. Jill was assisted by her best friend, Daisy Smythe. Jill and Daisy shared a quarter interest in a “uraninite” mine from Jill’s uncle, Ned. Both Jill and Daisy were quite capable of handling themselves in a fight, and demonstrated proficiency with guns. Jill invented many technological wonders, including infra-red lamp and lenses which could see through objects, “infra-radiant magnifying specs” (one has to stare intently to enlarge what they see, and they can also see right thorough objects), “electro-repellant”, containing a series of supercharged electromagnets, lined up so all the negative poles are set against one another, the positive against the positive, creating electro-repulsion which forces metal objects away, and “indestructible cloth,” radioactive and indestructible, although it must be treated with a “graphite diffuser ray” to curtail its radioactivity, otherwise it destroys metal over time.
Description Jill Trent, the Science Sleuth, was a female adventurer from an unknown American city. She solved crimes through a combination of her detective skills and scientific ingenuity. Jill was assisted by her best friend, Daisy Smythe. Jill and Daisy shared a quarter interest in a “uraninite” mine from Jill’s uncle, Ned. Both Jill and Daisy were quite capable of handling themselves in a fight, and demonstrated proficiency with guns. Jill invented many technological wonders, including infra-red lamp and lenses which could see through objects, “infra-radiant magnifying specs” (one has to stare intently to enlarge what they see, and they can also see right thorough objects), “electro-repellant”, containing a series of supercharged electromagnets, lined up so all the negative poles are set against one another, the positive against the positive, creating electro-repulsion which forces metal objects away, and “indestructible cloth,” radioactive and indestructible, although it must be treated with a “graphite diffuser ray” to curtail its radioactivity, otherwise it destroys metal over time.
