Volume 30

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Volume 30
Information
Release date:	December 18, 2000
Chapters:
ISBN:	ISBN 4-09-125500-0
Publisher:	Shogakukan
English release date:	July 21, 2009
English ISBN:	ISBN 1-4215-2198-9
English Publisher:	Viz Media
Featured Detective & Keyhole
John Thorndyke Saguru Hakuba
Aoyama's death & Conan side images

Volume 30 was released on December 18, 2000 in Japan.

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Heiji Hattori Kazuha Toyama Wataru Takagi Miwako Sato Inspector Megure Yumi Miyamoto Kaitou Kid Saguru Hakuba Ai Haibara Ayumi Yoshida Genta Kojima Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Sumiko Kobayashi Sonoko Suzuki Makoto Kyogoku Gin (background)

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Police Escort Murder Case

File 296 - Straight Ball Match

While traveling home on the Shinkansen from Osaka, Conan, Ran, and Kogoro ran into Officers Sato and Takagi, who were transporting a criminal. Later, a bomb was found on the train which Officer Sato went to investigate. At that time, while she was in the bathroom with it, Officer Takagi had to take the criminal to the bathroom. And then, he apparently committed suicide but...

People

Senzo Ogura
	Victim (stabbed) Drug dealer

Tatsuro Iwakuni
	47 years old Passenger

Norio Tokuyama
	51 years old Passenger

Akira Akashi
	29 years old Passenger

Kaitou Kid and the Murder

Characters introduced

Saguru Hakuba
	17 years old Detective Kid's rival

File 299 - The Meeting

Kogoro has been invited to a detective meeting by an unknown assailant who sends him money. There are six detectives there excluding Conan. They are in a house where a massacre happened years ago. One of the detectives are killed and they are stranded in the mansion as the bridge has been cut and the cars have been burned. It also appears that the unknown assailant is using the name Kaitou Kid.

File 302 - Sting

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The one who killed Ogami is Furuyo Senma.

Senma and Ogami were co-conspirators and had arranged for the detectives to arrive in an attempt to have them find the treasure for them. Senma's archaeologist father had disappeared looking for the treasure, so she wanted to know what the treasure was at all costs. Sensing that Ogami's greed had got the best of him and that he would kill her after they had found the treasure, she poisoned him using his nail biting habit. She had planned to fake her death, have the other detectives find the treasure and then have them kill each other, but they were not fooled. All the detectives who killed each other are alive all along.

Instead, she is tricked into confessing to Conan, who reveals the true secret of the treasure: the entire mansion is actually made of gold. After solving the case, Kogoro was revealed to be Kid in disguise and escapes before Conan could capture him.

People

Furuyo Senma
	Victim (explosion) 63 years old Detective

Harufumi Mogi
	Victim (poison) 39 years old Detective

Shukuzen Ogami
	Victim (poison) 51 years old Detective

Aki Ishihara
	Victim (kidnapped) 23 years old Maid

Ikumi Soda
	Victim (poison) 29 years old Detective

Renya Karasuma
	Millionaire Previous mansion owner Died 50 years ago

Genta's Shadow Case

File 303 - Genta's Misfortune

Genta has been acting weird at school lately. He is hiding under his futon at home, and doesn't eat his lunch instead of racing to finish first which is worrying his teacher Kobayashi. When he leaves school, Genta climbs over the wall and runs, like he is trying to lose someone. When the Detective Boys confront him, he tells them someone is trying to kill him. Earlier, he had heard the sound of someone's footsteps keeping pace with him in a tunnel. Later he was pushed off a bridge, and a burning car hurtled towards him. As he was telling the Detective Boys this, they reached a place outside a store where Genta likes to play a Yaiba Game machine. A large bolt falls nearby, barely alerting the Detective Boys in time to avoid part of the store's "BAKER" sign hurtling to the ground. Conan examines the support cable, and determines it had been deliberately cut and someone was indeed after Genta's life. They go to a burger restaurant and Genta reveals the man he thinks is trying to kill him is the purse snatcher the police are after. Genta had seen the man sometime earlier, before he was a wanted burglar, but had forgotten where it was. Genta does remember a golden haired man was with him when he saw the thief. Genta also explains that he went to a crime scene where the snatcher struck five days ago and saw his golden-haired witness in the crowd. He took the witness to the police and told them the story, but the witness denied seeing the thief. Genta later gets a mysterious phone call: "If you tell anyone that you saw me, I will kill you!! You, your family, and everybody that you know!"

File 304 - Genta's Trap

Genta tries to recall where he saw the thief. He remembers the witness sitting beside him, but doesn't remember the thief sitting down. Genta was sleepy at the time. The things he remembers about the thief are that he was holding a cigarette in his left hand, meaning he is left handed. He was also wearing a tee-shirt with a skull and the numbers 202 in digital clock-like numerals. Genta notices one of the customers at the burger place has a similar tee-shirt, only with the numbers 1999 instead. Conan asks the man where he got his shirt, and the man tells him it is from the Bones clothing store. The Detective Boys run to find the place, but unfortunately the criminal had followed them into the restaurant and overheard everything.

At the shop, the salesperson explains that they sold a variety of shirts like that with different text such as "Escape", "Help", and "1999" because of the doomsday prediction in 2000, but none that say 202. The salesperson doesn't remember anyone unusual either. Genta does remember a few more details about the thief though. The thief was reading a newspaper, the place allowed smoking, and Genta never took his eyes off of him meaning it was a place where it wouldn't be unusual to watch someone without making them uncomfortable. From those clues, Conan realizes the answer. To avoid alerting the thief who is watching nearby, Conan whispers something to Genta.

People

Man
	Purse snatcher

Kamiyo Someda
	Blond guy Witness

Pottery Class Case

File 305 - On the Bottom

Ran, Sonoko, and Conan attend a pottery class. Sonoko wants to make pottery for Makoto, while Ran wants to make some for Shinichi. A man is strangled to death with a necktie and found in a closet.

File 306 - Surrounded by Hints

Conan knows who the culprit is, to the point of confronting the culprit when they're all alone, but still has no evidence. He tries to find evidence to prove it was him.

People

Muneyuki Mino
	62 years old Potter

Kikuyo Kasama
	29 years old Muneyuki's assistant

Motoo Mino
	Victim (strangled) 31 years old Office worker Married into Muneyuki's family

Cover in other countries

United States

France

Germany

Italy

Finland

Norway

Sweden

China

Republic of China (Taiwan)

Malaysia (Chinese)

Malaysia (Malay)

Hong Kong

Korea

Vietnam

See also

• Manga
• Volume 21-30
• Detective Conan