A Code of Stars and Tobacco

Chronology
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Episode 374-375 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	A Star and a Code of Tobacco
Japanese title:	Hoshi to tabako no angô
Original airdate:	October 18, 2004 (Part 1) October 25, 2004 (Part 2)
Season:	13
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Detective Boys Dr. Agasa
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ai Haibara Ayumi Yoshida Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Genta Kojima Dr. Agasa Misao Yamamura

Plot

Part 1

For an astronomical observation, Conan and the group went to a pension deep inside the mountain. Other than the pension owner, there were also other three people in the pension, the victim's fiancee and the two magazine staff. As they went to the nearby hill to see the stars, they saw a decayed bones and on top of it they found the dying message and then that night the other man from the magazine staff was killed and left another dying message.

Murder

Location: Amatsuchi Pension Victim: Asao Kono, and Hajime Futagawa Suspects: Etsuko Nonomiya, Ryoji Amatsuchi, and Heihachi Mikami The first victim was killed one year before the appearance of Professor Agasa and the Detective Boys. He felt from a cliff near Amatsuchi Pension after a quarrel with the chief editor Mikami. The second victim was killed, after he found out about the murder of Kôno and tried to blackmail the culprit.

Part 2

After Conan, detective boys and Agasa realizes that the dying message was referring to Futagawa Hajime's initials, they decided to confront him. But he went missing so as the other suspects. While they were searching at the woods, they later found Futagawa's body on the ground dead. On his hand, another pack of cigarette was found. This time, it contains seven. They also found a cellphone with a will on it, confessing Futagawa's crime and decided to commit suicide. Conan realizes that he didn't commit suicide and the seven cigarette was a clue to the real murderer. So they decided to search to each one's rooms and belongings to find the murder weapon. While looking through the guestbook, Conan finally manage to find out the real culprit behind the murders.

People

Etsuko Nonomiya
	28 years old Inn guest

Ryoji Amatsuchi
	34 years old Pension owner

Hajime Futagawa
	Victim 35 years old Inn guest

Heihachi Mikami
	43 years old Inn guest

Asao Kono
	Victim

Resolution

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Mikami Heihachi killed both Kono and Futagawa. He killed Kono because he refused to include his name to the comet that Kôno found after asking his help to confirm if it was a new discovery or not. He killed Futagawa after he tried to threatened him that if he didn't pay up 50,000,000, he would surely reveal the crime he committed.

See also

• Season 13