Volume 52
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| Release date: | January 16, 2006 | ||
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| Chapters: | 533-543 | ||
| ISBN: | ISBN 4-09-120026-5 | ||
| Publisher: | Shogakukan | ||
| English release date: | October 14, 2014 | ||
| English ISBN: | ISBN 978-1-4215-6508-8 | ||
| English Publisher: | Viz Media | ||
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Volume 52 was released on January 16, 2006 in Japan.
Contents
Cast
Gadgets
Chapters
Star Blade Case
File 533 - Suspicious Action!?
File 534 - Connection Sneak Peek
People
Fake Wedding Case
File 535 - Wedding Hall Panic
File 536 - The Uninvited Guest
File 537 - Wedding Battle
People
Overturned Belongings Case
File 538 - Out of Ordinary Room
File 539 - Upside Down Mystery
File 540 - The Thing He Wanted to Hide
People
Sonoko's Handkerchief Case
Characters introduced
File 541 - Sonoko's Red Handkerchief
Sonoko takes Ran and Conan to a maple forest in the mountains of Gunma Prefecture which was used to film a well-received romantic TV series. In one scene of this series, the lead actor (who starred as a soldier) tied a red handkerchief to a tree branch and told his lover implicitly to reunite with him there after years apart. This prompted a large number of fans to go to the forest and tie red handkerchiefs to trees themselves. They soon become ubiquitous in some parts of the forest, meaning that Sonoko's scheme to imitate the series (by tying a red handkerchief herself and sending a message to Makoto) and lure Makoto out for a romantic rendezvous will not work (as he will not be able to tell Sonoko's handkerchiefs from all the other ones).
The three visitors encounter a man who claims to be part of the TV series crew. He explains that he was the one who gave the scriptwriter the idea of including a scene of tying a red handkerchief to a tree in this forest, because he had spotted one while searching for a place to film. Due to this, as the series became popular and fans called TV stations with inquiries about where the scene was shot etc., he was tasked to respond to such inquiries and requests. He further says that that day he has been asked by a fan to find the exact location of the tree with the original red handkerchief (i.e. the one that inspired the scene). He has found the tree but has forgotten the telephone number of the fan, because of which he asks Ran and Sonoko to leave a message for the fan in the guestbook of the inn where the fan is staying and to sign the message 'Hozumi' in katakana. Ran and Sonoko agree and set off for the inn to leave the message; the latter thus forgets to tie her handkerchief. She later realizes this and returns to the forest with Conan and Ran, and they discover that Hozumi has been stabbed and is dead. They also discover the notebook of Hozumi, which is on the forest floor some distance from his body, and there is a bloodstain on the date April 1st.
File 542 - Name in Katakana
Conan discovers that Hozumi was killed within the last thirty minutes and finds dirt in his nails. He also senses that a number of people are around watching him, Ran and Sonoko but cannot figure out who they are (he later asked the police about this, but they were not even aware of the existence of those people and only found an empty tent in the forest). Detective Yamamura arrives after Ran calls the police; he turns out to be a fan of the TV series (he started watching upon his grandmother's recommendation). After being informed of what happened, Yamamura makes some nonsense deductions and then decides to head to the inn where the fan entrusting Hozumi to find the tree stays in so as to obtain further clues. After being shown a list of the inn's guests, Conan and Yamamura are able to narrow the suspects down to three people, who are named Isamu Okuma, Tatsuzo Watanuki and Hans Berkeley. Yamamura's questioning of them does not yield much useful information, and all three claim that they do not know the TV series in question at all. Meanwhile, one of Yamamura's subordinates informs him that there is nobody in the TV series crew named Hozumi. Yamamura takes a close look at the list of crew members and complains that the dates on it are messed up. This unintentional hint allows Conan to understand the bloodstain on April 1st and he heads into the forest alone. He finds a tree to which a single handkerchief is tied, murmurs that Hozumi must have dug something up before meeting the culprit and finds the skeleton of a human head beneath the forest floor.
On the other hand, Sonoko is very happy to hear that in the karate tournament that Makoto is participating in, the commentator presents him as someone who has not lost in all his 400 matches despite only being 18 years old.
File 543 - Superman
People
Trivia
- The title for each chapter are worded as the following in Case Closed:
- File 533 - Suspicious Behavior
- File 534 - The Fateful Premiere
- File 535 - Panic at the Wedding Hall
- File 536 - The Uninvited Guest
- File 537 - Wedding Battle
- File 538 - The Topsy-Turvy Room
- File 539 - The Upside-Down Mystery
- File 540 - What He Wanted To Hide
- File 541 - Serena's Red Handkerchief
- File 542 - A Name in Katakana
- File 543 - Superman
Cover in other countries
See also
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