| Volume 39
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| Information
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| Release date:
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November 18, 2002
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| Chapters:
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393-403
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| ISBN:
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ISBN 4-09-126169-8
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| Publisher:
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Shogakukan
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| English release date:
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July 12, 2011
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| English ISBN:
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ISBN 1-4215-3499-1
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| English Publisher:
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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 39 was released on November 18, 2002 in Japan.
Cast
Gadgets
Red Horse Case
Characters introduced
File 393 - The Luring Red Horse
Heiji and Kazuha are dining with Conan, Ran and Kogoro in the detective office. They discuss a serial arsonist who leaves a little red horse figure at each scene. 'Red Horse' is an old nickname the police used for an arsonist, so Heiji guess that maybe the arsonist is challenging the police. The three fires has happened at 1th block, 2th block and 3th block, so the next one would be at 4th block. Heiji has a idea of where that might be. Kusakawa from the previous case has asked him to investigate a house on 4th block, where there has been some suspicious activities spotted by the house owner.
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
The culprit is Akira Morozumi.
People
The Torn Friendship
Characters introduced
File 398 - Torn Friendship 1
File 399 - Torn Friendship 2
File 400 - Torn Friendship 3
The culprit is Haruka Tendo.
People
Child Star Case
Anime Episode 354-355:
A Small ClientFile 401 - A Small Client
A child actor named Kazuki Kinukawa shows up at the detective agency, asking Kogoro to track down 'Atsuko', a sender of fan letters, who is also his mother that had abandon him when he was little. He seems to resent her for abandoning him and just wanted to tell her to not try connect with him now he is famous. From the postcards, they can see, that they are send from all around Japan, that they were send once a month for two years until winter and they are written on the same kind of postcard. Conan deduces that Kazuki's mother is staying at an inn in Atami and had guests there send her postcards from their hometown to make herself impossible to find. So Atsuko is likely a staff member at that inn. After Kazuki promises to cover the expenses they go to Atami and asks around the inns there. During their journey Kazuki remembers at his mother had a mole on her chest and that he would look at it, when she was carrying him. They finally finds the inn, where the postcard is sold. The hostess Mitsu Kusano explains that this series doesn't sell well, so they share them among the employees. However there are no one working here by the name Atsuko. Conan thinks that Kazuki's mother might have another name, so they decide to stay the night. Suddently an journalist, Yosuhiro Kamoshita, arrives and guess corretly that Kazuki is looking for his mother. He seems thrilled figuring that his present would do good in his article.
File 402 - Woman With a Mole
File 403 - A Red Mole...!?
The culprit is Toshiko Betsusho. She explains that she is not Kazuki's mother. However she did knew her and was aware that she was sending Kazuki monthly postcards. Betsusho got jealous, because she couldn't have children of her own, and thought the mother's attempt to connect with her abandoned son was pathetic, so she blackmailed Kazuki's production company, in the hopes that they would stop pass on the postcards to Kazuki. The story of his father being a murderer was a lie, and she did learn the details of Kazuki's birthmark and the name of the church, where he was left, from the real mother, which made it possible for her to make the scam work. However she never imagine that they would actually pay her the money. And when Kamoshita turned up and threaten to blackmail her, she killed him.
People
Cover in other countries
Spain (Spanish, Volumen 2)
See also
