Volume 39
| ‹ Volume 38 | List of Chapters • List of Cases | Volume 40 › |
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| Release date: | November 18, 2002 | ||
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| Chapters: | 393-403 | ||
| ISBN: | ISBN 4-09-126169-8 | ||
| Publisher: | Shogakukan | ||
| English release date: | July 12, 2011 | ||
| English ISBN: | ISBN 1-4215-3499-1 | ||
| English Publisher: | Viz Media | ||
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Volume 39 was released on November 18, 2002 in Japan.
Contents
Cast
Gadgets
Chapters
Red Horse Case
Characters introduced
| Inspector Yuminaga | |
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File 393 - The Luring Red Horse
The protagonist trio, along with Heiji and Kazuha recount the events of the day over dinner. Kogoro is relieved because if Misari had gone through with her plan of killing Kazuha and Kusukawa by setting the house on fire, the case may have been blamed on the recent serial arsonist. Interested, Heiji asks for more details. Kogoro explains that though the methodology of each arson is different, the perpetrator always leaves behind a "charred, red horse doll." Because "Red Horse" is an old police term that refers to an arsonist, Heiji guesses the arsonist is challenging the police. Additionally, because the arsonist burned the houses of unrelated families on the first block of Rizen, the second block of Toriya and the third block of Okuho, the arsons were likely in cold-blood. Following the pattern, the next victim will be a random house on the fourth block of some ward. Luckily, Kusukawa had told Heiji of suspicious activity at the fourth block of Haido, and had asked him to investigate. With it being their best lead, Heiji wishes to take Kogoro and Conan there tomorrow, but Ran refuses, saying Conan has a field trip. She turns to Conan and shows him a special teru teru bōzu she made that had previously ensured sunny skies for Shinichi's football matches, and will surely disperse the rain clouds for tomorrow—irritating Heiji.
That night while everyone sleeps, Heiji sabotages the teru teru bōzu. Seemingly as a result, Conan's field trip is cancelled due to heavy rainfall. Heiji, Kogoro, and Conan head to the client, Ryoko Morozumi's, house. Heiji worries for Kazuha's safety, but Conan assures him the Mouri Detective Agency isn't on the fourth block.
At the site, the trio sees Ryoko callously driving away an antique salesman, Genda Takanori. She also sends the detectives away as she claims that what she saw was "just her imagination." Though suspicious, they return to their car, as they observe Ryoko welcome her feng shui adviser, Misao Soga, into her home. Soon after, Ryoko's older sister, Keiko, who works as a fortune teller, comes to ask for money, but is rebuffed. Two hours pass with no signs of Soga exiting. Heiji, fed up, sneaks his way around the house and spies through a window. The trio discover Ryoko having an affair with the adviser, but in a moment of his mistress' absence, Soga begins to searching for something. Ryoko catches him, stating the video of their affair is kept somewhere safe, and that she intends to use it as blackmail for him to divorce his wife and marry her instead. She tells him to get changed as her husband, Akira, will arrive.
Back at their car, the detectives observe Takanori meandering through the streets before Akira eventually comes home. Akira and Soga greet each other and leave for a bar, leaving Ryoko in the house alone. Soon, Ran calls Kogoro home, forcing the trio to leave their post. As the four associates go about their evening activities, a fire blazes brightly on the fourth block of Haido, engulfing the Morozumi's home with Ryoko still inside, all while a blood-red horse doll burns in the flames.
File 394 - Shadow of the Red Horse
File 395 - Owner of the Red Horse
File 396 - Witness of the Red Horse
File 397 - An Obtuse Imitation
People
Camper Van Murder Case
Characters introduced
| Elena Miyano | |
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File 398 - Torn Friendship 1
File 399 - Torn Friendship 2
File 400 - Torn Friendship 3
People
Child Star Case
File 401 - A Small Client
Kinukawa Kazuki, a 7-year-old child actor, wants to find a woman named Atsuko who sent him many postcards. She commented about his movies and drama series. She sent 1 postcard a month, from spring 2 years ago until the winter of last year. She never wrote her address. The postcards’ stamps range from Hokkaido and Okinawa. The postcards are badly crumpled, and he says he left them lying around.
Kazuki says that the postcards are from his biological mother who abandoned him in front of a convent 6 years ago. The handwriting is the same as the note that was left in his bassinet.
Kazuki says that his mother had a mole on her chest. He remembers falling asleep staring at the mole and listening to her chop food on a dicing board.
Conan says Kazuki’s mom lives in Atami. She must be a cleaner at a hotel or a waitress at an inn.
There are three copies of the same postcard, which features a statue’s hand-- the statue of Kanichi and Miya that is on the beaches of Atami. 1. The postcard is probably sold at a restaurant, hotel, or store at Atami, so she must have visited Atami at one point. 2. It is part of a 4-piece set of postcards, but she only sent the least recognizable corner. She doesn’t want him to know where she is. 3. She sent three copies of the same postcard. If she was rich enough to travel all around Japan, she should have more variety in her postcards.
Conan, Ran, Kogoro, and Kazuki go to Atami and find an inn that sells the postcards.
Kusano Mitsu, a 34-year-old waitress, says that the cards are limited edition. She says that the inn discontinued them because they didn’t sell well and that a few of the employees took them home. She says that no “Atsuko” works in the inn. She is a fan of Kazuki’s. She has a mole of her lower right collarbone.
Saegusa Tomoka, a 28-year-old, is a grumpy waitress. She has a mole on the back of her neck.
Kamoshita Yasuhiro, a 37-year-old freelance writer, speculates that Kazuki is looking for his mother. He is a guest who booked Room 205. He calls his editor, saying that Kazuki’s father might have been a murderer.
Conan, Ran, Kogoro, and Kazuki check into Room 308, which is free after a guest canceled.
After dinner, Conan, Ran, Kogoro, and Kazuki go to the springs. Ran finds a cover of a camera lens that belongs to Kamoshita, and she goes to return it to him.
Kogoro enters the mixed baths, and he sees the three employees bathing. Betsuho screams when he enters, and she protests when Mitsu invites them in. Tomoka is bored. He notes that all three have a mole.
Yasuhiro’s fully dressed corpse is later found in an overflowing bathtub. He was strangled.
File 402 - Woman With a Mole
The detective Sango Yokomizo comes to investigate the murder.
On Yasuhiro's phone, there is a photo of a woman with a mole on her chest who is strangling him with a thin black wire that is ~1 meter long. It was taken at 11:48 PM. The photo is blurry and the culprit’s face can’t be seen. Sango Yokomizo speculates that the culprit took the photo to create an alibi for themselves, but Conan disagrees. The woman used both hands to strangle him, so the victim took the photo. If the culprit took it, she would have covered herself so the photo wouldn’t reveal her gender. The phone was set so that it doesn’t make a click sound, so the culprit probably didn’t know about the photo.
Yasuhiro had called up female employees in the inn. He told them, “If you remember about 20 million yen, come to my room or I will reveal everything.”
10 minutes before his death, Yasuhiro had called Izumiya, the manager of the magazine “Hot.” He had said that he had found Kazuki’s mother and that he would send Izumiya a photo of her. He claimed that “Atsuo” had blackmailed Kazuki’s agency; allegedly, she threatened to reveal that Kazuki’s father was a murderer if they didn’t send her 20 million yen. Kazuki’s agency sent her the money when she revealed the name of the convent where she had left Kazuki and identified Kazuki’s birthmark. She had contacted the agency by email, so no one knew her face or voice.
Only three female employees don’t have alibis for 11:48 PM: Kusano Mitsu, Toshiko Betsuho, and Saegusa Tomoka. Sango Yokomizo tells the employees that the culprit had a mole on her chest. Saegusa indignantly asks if he wants her to strip in front of him, and Mitsu is embarrassed. Yokomizo offers to bring in a female police officer, but Betsuho exposes her chest, which doesn’t have a mole. Tomoka exposes her chest, and she doesn’t have a mole either. Mitsu has a mole on her chest, but it’s on the opposite side.
Before he died, Yasuhiro had rented out a movie, which was on a cassette tape. It was a horror movie, featuring Kazuki.
Yasuhiro has marks on the side of his head. He was hit, but not hard enough to kill him. He was probably knocked out and strangled.
The shower head has a luminol reaction. The culprit knocked him out with the shower head, and it was splattered with blood.
Conan brings a screwdriver, and he orders an officer to rent the same movie from a video store. He knocks Kogoro out.
File 403 - A Red Mole...!?
As Kogoro, Conan explains the murder.
The magnetic material on a tape’s surface leaves a black mark on the hands. Yasuhiro had black marks on his neck. As the culprit tried to wash it off, she got his bathrobe wet. To deflect suspicion, she dumped his body into the tub.
The mole was Yasuhiro’s blood spatter, which looked like a mole because the photo was taken against the light. The culprit took off her clothes to prevent the blood from spattering onto her clothes.
The culprit went into Yasuhiro’s room. She cut the tape from his movie. She said that the shower was broken to lure him into the bathroom. When he entered, she hit him on the head and strangled him with the tape. She didn’t know that he had a camera open to discreetly take a picture of her, nor that he took a photo of her in his dying moments. After cleaning off the blood from the floor and her body, she put her clothes back on and left Yasuhiro’s room. She returned the scissor and screwdriver to their rightful places. She went into the mixed bath to clean off the magnetic powder on her hands and any remaining blood on her body.
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