| Volume 27
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April 18, 2000
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ISBN 4-09-125497-7
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Shogakukan
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January 20, 2009
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ISBN 1-4215-1679-9
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Viz Media
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| Featured Detective & Keyhole
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| Aoyama's death & Conan side images
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Volume 27 was released on April 18, 2000 in Japan.
Cast
Gadgets
Murderer Kogoro Mouri Case
Anime Episode 199-200:
Kogoro Mouri, SuspectFile 264 - A Taste of One's Own Medicine
Kogoro takes Ran and Conan to a mountain hotel but he mostly enjoys the swimming pool, checking girls out. Once out of the pool, they come upon Eri, who came to this hotel with a few friends, lawyers as well, as part of a lawsuit having to do with a factory and a village in the surroundings. Kogoro and Eri belittle each other just like usual, but Eri says to Ran in secret that she feels like to reconcile with Kogoro, by offering him a tie, but Ran must not say anything for the moment. They also meet Norifumi Saku, a young lawyer that leaves Eri far from indifferent, and it is mutual. They organise a dinner with everyone and they meet Eri's fellow barristers Mikasa, Shiozawa and Usui. Kogoro drinks way too much and starts hitting on Usui, which angers Eri who leaves the table. Some time after, when tempers aren't flaring anymore, everyone looks for Kogoro, who hasn't given some sign of life since a moment. They search everywhere and end by Usui's room, where they hear the ringing of Kogoro's phone from the inside. Some time before, Usui had deliberately brought a drunk Kogoro in her bed in order to blot Eri's copybook and to become the new queen of the Bar. But Usui had been interrupted by a door knock. Later on, when Eri and co try to open Usui's door, they find it locked from the inside with the safety chain, and glimpse an unconscious Usui on the floor. Saku doesn't wait for the groom to come and breaks down the door. Usui has been strangled with a telephone wire, and in the bed there's Kogoro, who wakes up unaware of the hustle and bustle around him.
File 265 - An Important Witness
Eri refuses to defend Kogoro then Saku will be his barrister. Eri warns that Kogoro may be sentenced to the death penalty, but the real reason why she doesn't want to defend him isn't because she believes her husband killed Usui but rather because many things are odd in the room and concerning the murder, and then she can't believe Kogoro murdered Ritsuko Usui. She investigates along with Ran, Conan and Yamamura, and Conan finally deduces who is the true killer.
File 266 - Unwavering Resolve...
Eri asks Saku to come to Ritsuko's room as she wants to tell him who the murderer is. Saku hesitates on Usui's room's location but sees some dishes he knows in front of a room and guesses it's the right one. Eri, along with Conan, reveals that Saku killed Usui and pretended Kogoro was the killer. He deliberately used the telephone wire both to strangle Usui and not to be disturbed by the phone, and as Kogoro had touched the wire. He placed Kogoro's phone near the door and tried not to wake him up. He did a few mistakes especially discarding a note on which Usui had written, as he was angered : indeed the note was about a strange type of food she wanted to order, and Saku did'nt get why she wanted to eat such a thing and tore it off. But the note wasn't about food but about the name of a man Usui wanted to meet at the hotel as part of the lawsuit. Later on, a groom brought some food for two people and Saku still didn't get it and when the groom left he put a note on the door outside not to be disturbed. This is why Eri ordered the same food and placed it in front of the door : if Saku knocked at that door, that would mean he knew which door it was as he had previously seen which food the groom had brought.
Eri explains Saku broke down the door to get rid of his closed chamber trick. He had used pliers to break a part of the safety chain and tied the two ends again with some thread, then he put the chain on and left. Therefore, when people would come at Usui's door and try to open it, the chain would work but none would see it had been broken and then mended. As Saku broke down the door, the chain's rings broke again and nobody could guess the trick, except Conan's shrewdness of course. Saku wanted others to believe Ritsuko had locked her door to be quiet with Kogoro, and that the latter had killed her in anger during his drunk state.
Eri says that the police will soon retrieve Saku's pliers and find his fingerprints, as Saku didn't think about throwing it away, being certain nobody would ever find out his trick. Saku confesses to killing Ritsuko to prevent her from winning the lawsuit and allowing a factory to pollute his childhood village, and also because Usui was a very immoral person who went as far as to manipulate Kogoro to dishonor Eri. Saku says however that nobody will believe Eri as these are the words of a lawyer close to the suspect against the words of another lawyer. Yet Eri shows him Yamamura and all the other policemen who had been watching them from the other rooms' doors' peepholes and the fact that Eri recorded Saku's confession with Ran's walkman. Saku then agrees to surrender and says he has actually always passionately loved Eri, something he's not sure Kogoro does.
Once released, Kogoro walks towards Eri who is listening to Ran's walkman on the beach. Eri doesn't turn around and Kogoro says he still loves her, apologises and would like to live with her again. Eri eventually turns around, saying she was listening to music very loud and didn't hear what Kogoro told her, asking him to repeat it. Kogoro doesn't and still does his usual "Eri-bashing", moving away towards an angered Ran and a disillusioned Conan. Once home, Eri listens with delight to Kogoro's confession she actually did record, but declares his apologies insufficient.
People
Sato's Father Case
Characters introduced
File 267 - The Witness from 18 Years Ago
File 268 - The Imprisoned Policeman
File 269 - Time's Up
Sato enters Shuji Kano's Italian restaurant and reveals he is the arsonist Sato's dad tried to arrest twenty years ago. Due to prescription, Sato can't arrest him, but Kano deliberately surrenders, yet he is only the arsonist's accomplice. Sato looks for the real one and after Conan neutralises him, she asks for Takagi. As everybody believes Takagi has been burned alive, the latter suddenly turns up, his hand seriously injured. He said he didn't want to break Sato's dad's handcuffs with his gun, therefore he rather spent hours to tear off the bar to which he was tied in order to escape, explaining why he only arrived now. Sato cries and calls him an idiot but agrees to date him afterwards.
People
Arcade Murder Case
Anime Episode 226-227:
The Battle Game TrapCharacters introduced
File 270 - Game Start
Ran and Sonoko met an English teacher named Jodie Saintemillion and she's from America.
File 271 - TTX...
File 272 - Game Over
People
Bear Hunters Case
File 273 - Stuck on the Same Boat
The Detective Boys are going and picking Matsutake mushrooms in the forest. Answering to Genta's contemptuous comment about apples being very common fruits, Haibara says that the apple is the Garden of Eden's forbidden fruit, and that after eating from it, Adam and Eve were chased from there, therefore apples are very mysterious fruits, with the eternity inside. Conan helps the Detective Boys to find matsutakes by telling them to look for it near dried up pinetrees, in a both wet and sunny location. Genta notices many matsutakes on the other side of a mesh fence, with no public access except hunters, as bears are living in the area, but still decides to cross it anyway. In order to find Genta who still hasn't come back, the Detective Boys split into two groups : Ai and Mitsuhiko, and Conan, Agasa and Ayumi. Mitsuhiko starts falling in love with Haibara and wonders if she's already loving Conan. The two find a hole in the wire and meet a bear cub who has been frightened, and suddenly they stumble upon the corpse of a hunter who was shot down a very short time ago. Mitsuhiko and Haibara are targeted as well by the hunter's killer and run away in the forest. Meanwhile, Genta is found by Conan and co, but not Mitsuhiko and Haibara. They meet three hunters who wonder what they're doing here and tell them it's very dangerous. They decide to help Agasa and his group to find Mitsuhiko and Haibara. These latter catch sight of the group but notice among them the hunter who targeted them and can't show up, fearing they might be killed, mistaken for bears, or that the hunter stops the research, finds them and kills them.
People
Cover in other countries
See also
