Cast
Case
Part 1
Situation
| Murder
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| Location:
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Near the condominium
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| Victim:
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Tatsuya Amagi
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| Age:
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24
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| Time:
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9:00 p.m
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| Cause of death:
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Stab wounds in torso
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| Suspects:
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Tameo Fukuda, Toyoko Kamemitsu, Hiro Ezaki, Hikoichi Bando, Yosuke Chino, Koyuki Gamo, and all of the people in his neighborhood
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| Amagi's murder was obviously motivated by hatred, and the most complicating factor is that he was practically despised by everyone in the neighborhood due to his crude, violent manner and perpetuated acts of disorderly conduct, such as revving up his motorbike on the street in the dead of night.
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| Murder
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| Location:
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Bando's house
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| Victim:
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Hikoichi Bando
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| Age:
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35
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| Time:
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9:00 p.m
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| Cause of death:
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Poison (Pesticide)
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| Suspect:
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Chino Yosuke
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| According to the police, they found Bando's card near the body, so they went to his house, and found him dead. And the reason why Chino became a suspect because his lighter were found under the sofa. A college student named Hiro Ezaki was pestering him, saying "It's a good thing that Bando killed Amagi, that's what he deserved."
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Part 2
People
Resolution
Amagi and Bando were murdered by Toyoko Kamemitsu, but under a more indirect motive. Kamemitsu, a passionate mystery fan, had written a book titled The Melting Weapon and submitted it under the pen name "Yamiyo Dorosue" to the publishing company where Chino worked as a reviewer and censor. However, Chino judged the script as being too awful for publishing, and he openly voiced his derision of the author's writing skills and her pen name while visiting Kamemitsu's café, without knowing that he was addressing the very subject of his criticism. Thereupon Kamemitsu decided to take revenge on Chino by framing him for the murders of Tatsuya Amagi, since he was already hated by most of his neighbors, and Hikoichi Bando because he had been too negligent in challenging Amagi for his disorderly conduct.
Conan's clue for discovering Kamemitsu's guilt were the mystery books she had brought to her café and removed after the murders; all of them featured short stories she had already successfully published, and Agatha Christie's The ABC Murders, on which the case was incidentally patterned based on the victims' last names and Kamemitsu's pen name. Kamemitsu, admitting her guilt, subtly left those clues so that only a true mystery fan - who would be Conan - would be able to expose her as the culprit.
In the episode's post-credit scene, a short review of The Melting Weapon is provided, demonstrating that Chino's assessment actually had a solid basis in fact. Kamemitsu had proposed a highly unrealistic murder method using a poisoned-covered slug as a weapon. While the victim was asleep, the murderer would release the slug into his bedroom. When the slug ended up on the victim's face, the poison would seep through the skin into his bloodstream, killing him, and the salty sweat exuded by the victim's death throes would melt the slug away, leaving no murder weapon.
Trivia
The name "Dorosue" is probably a reference to mystery author Dorothy L. Sayers.
The name of Kamemitsu's cafe is "Brown," which is probably a reference to G.K. Chesterton's detective priest, Father Brown.
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