Special Volume 12

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Volume 12
Information
Release date:	December 25, 2000
Original Work:	Gosho Aoyama
Manga:	Yutaka Abe, Denjiro Maru, Takahisa Taira
ISBN:	ISBN 4-09-142782-0
Publisher:	Shogakukan
Back Cover Image
Conan Side Image

Special Volume 12 was released on December 25, 2000 in Japan.

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Shinichi Kudo (flashback) Genta Kojima Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Ayumi Yoshida Juzo Megure Sonoko Suzuki

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch

The Missing Romance Writer

People

Naoko Takahashi
	38 years old Doctor at Yamano University Hospital

Motoko Yaginuma
	52 years old Head of nurses at Yamano University Hospital

Ryo Akagawa
	36 years old Romance novelist Missing

Yumi Akagawa
	21 years old Ryo's wife

Nobuko Saito
	22 years old Medical students at Yamano University Hospital

Inspector Takeda
	48 years old Nagano's inspector

The Ekiden Tournament Calls for Death

People

Shizuko Sakano
	38 years old Teitan junior high school teacher

Issei Yoshizawa
	Victim (poison) 35 years old Teitan junior high school teacher

Kyoka Sawada
	25 years old Teitan junior high school teacher

Shoichi Sakano
	Shizuko's son Teitan junior high school student

Onigawara
	Teitan junior high school teacher

Tetsuo Tadokoro
	57 years old Teitan junior high school principal

The Mystery of the Murder-Arson

People

Kazuhiko Miyatake
	30 years old Carpenter specializing in building shrines and temples

Kaneo Zenita
	Victim (burned) 62 years old Garbage disposal company president

Koji Kaji
	32 years old

Mana Zenita
	23 years old Kaneo's wife

In the Space of an Hour

People

Sayuri Kataoka
	Victim (beaten) 29 years old Actress Former idol Saki's older sister

Saki Kataoka
	27 years old Stage actress Sayuri's younger sister

Kamishiro
	47 years old Chairperson

Keiichi Terai
	32 years old Sayuri's former husband

Resolution

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The culprit is Saki Kataoka, Sayuri's sister. She used her computer to watch through internet camera at the town crossroad to makeup an alibi. The evidence is that she didn't known that apart from the sportcar accident and Kogoro flirting women that there is one more bigger accident that she supposed to acknowledge of nearby, due to the camera's position.

Saki confesses that she has always been envious of her sister, because Sayuri was the favorite child since the old days, became a famous idol and married (later divorced) her boyfriend Keiichi, but her last straw broke when Sayuri came to star in Saki's plays and performed even BETTER than her. She couldn't take it anymore as she didn't want to lose the cheering sound from the crowd to her.

The Murderer with an Alibi

File 9 - Part 2

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People

Tomoko Egashira
	Victim (carbon-dioxide suffocation) 20 years old Nurse at Ejinbara Hospital

Yuko Morita
	41 years old Head of nurses at Ejinbara Hospital

Man
	Security guard at Nurse Dormitory

Man
100px	Morita's fiance

Resolution

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The culprit is the head of nurse Yuko Morita. She used the 4 WD car's muffler that her fiance is driving to send carbon-dixode gas into Egashira's room via the drain pipe, which she send sleeping gas in first. ฺำBefore committing the crime she went to Egashira's room to put a strand of hair to drain out all water from the sink's pipe. The evidence is that hamster was able to enter the room through draining pipe.

Morita confessed that she once caused a malpractice due to that she gave wrong medicine to people with same name and caused his death. Egashira accidentally know this so she silenced her. She just want to get married and be happy, which Conan complimented that "One cannot be happy over other suffering".

Afterward Conan and Ran discussed that Morita was really sympathetic as that malpractice day there were only three nurses and fifty patients. Kogoro then get a toothache again.

The Island the Ghost Lives On

File 11 - Part 2

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The culprit is Yumi Koizumi. She used a circular saw connected with two wooden logs as pendulum to kill Hatada. Her motive is the Hatada was responsible to the death of her cousin, a girl who once confessed to him but was rejected and humiliated. However, Nishiyama confesses that he was the one who goaded Hatada into doing that and Hatada truly realized that he destroyed the girl's life and wanted to atone for his sin by becoming a better man.

People

Shin Ito
	17 years old Beika east high school mystery meeting for the study

Koji Hatada
	Victim (body cutting) 17 years old Beika east high school mystery meeting for the study

Hiroshi Nishiyama
	17 years old Beika east high school mystery meeting for the study

Yumi Koizumi
	20 years old Beika women's college student

Cover in other countries

Vietnam

Indonesia

Korea

Spain

Germany

Malaysia

China

See also

• Detective Conan Special
• Special Volume 11-20