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Can Detective Conan crack the case…while trapped in a kid’s body?
About the author
Gosho Aoyama made his debut in 1986 with
Chotto Mattete (Wait a Minute), which won Shogakukan’s prestigious Shinjin Comic Taisho (Newcomer’s Award for Comics) and launched his career as a critically acclaimed, top-selling manga artist. In addition to
Case Closed, which won the Shogakukan Manga Award in 2001, Aoyama created the popular manga
Yaiba: Samurai Legend, which won the Shogakukan Manga Award in 1992. Aoyama’s manga is greatly influenced by his boyhood love for mystery, adventure, and baseball, and he has cited the tales of Arsène Lupin and Sherlock Holmes, along with the samurai films of Akira Kurosawa, as some of his childhood favorites.
Summary
Can Detective Conan crack the case...while trapped in a kid’s
body?
Jimmy Kudo, the son of a world-renowned mystery writer, is a high
school detective who has cracked the most baffling of cases. One day while on a
date with his childhood friend Rachel Moore, Jimmy observes a pair of men in
black involved in some shady business. The men capture Jimmy and give him a
poisonous substance to rub out their witness. But instead of killing him, it
turns him into a little kid! Jimmy takes on the pseudonym Conan Edogawa and
continues to solve all the difficult cases that come his way. All the while,
he's looking for the men in black and the mysterious organization they're with
in order to find a cure for his miniature malady.
A blind woman hires
Richard Moore to find the scarred man who once saved her life. But the unknown
hero isn’t the only mysterious figure lurking around—there’s a
serial killer on the prowl! Then the dashing jewel thief known as the Kaito Kid
vows to crack a safe built by a legendary master of traps. But when Conan sees
the Kid’s message, he suspects he may be dealing with an
impostor...
