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| Information
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| Release date:
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June 18, 1994
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| ISBN:
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ISBN 4-09-123371-6
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Shogakukan
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| English release date:
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September 7, 2004
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| English ISBN:
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ISBN 1-59116-327-7
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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 1 was released on June 18, 1994 in Japan.
Prologue
File 001 - The Heisei Holmes
At a party in a mansion, high school detective Shinichi Kudo solves the murder of the host's wife. He reals to Inspector Megure that the wheelchair-bound host is the killer and that his broken leg healed weeks ago. The next day, on the way to school, the newspapers and TV reporters are all talking about Shinichi's latest case and his childhood friend Ran Mouri is upset at him for once again taking business away from her father, a private detective. The two later go on a date to Tropical Land, as Shinichi promised they would if Ran won her karate tournament. While there, Shinichi spends a lot of time talking about his idol, Sherlock Holmes, and even guesses that a woman in line is a gymnast (because he could see marks on her thighs when the wind blew up her skirt) as a demonstration of Holmes' deduction style. This upsets Ran a little, as she was looking forward to a day with just Shinichi. On the roller coaster, a man named Kishida is mysteriously beheaded in the tunnel. The suspects are the victim's girlfriend Aiko, their two friends Hitomi (the gymnast) and Reiko, and two mysterious men in black. After Inspector Megure and the police arrive, they discover a bloody knife in Aiko's bag and arrest her.
However, Shinichi explains that a woman wouldn't have the strength to decapitate someone with just a knife. He then explains that the killer used an object like a purse or a backpack to escape the ride restraints and wrap a wire around the victim's head while in the darkness of the Mystery Coaster's tunnel. After tying the wire around the victim's head the killer tossed a hook attached to the other end onto the roller coaster's track, beheading the victim using the coaster's speed and movement.
Shinichi concludes the murderer is Hitomi, as her expertise as a gymnast makes this feat possible. Shinichi proves her guilt through two crucial pieces of evidence:
- 1) Hitomi's necklace (the murder weapon) is missing after the end of the ride
- 2) Hitomi has a tear-trail on her face that runs horizontally which is impossible unless she was crying during the course of the ride.
Hitomi breaks down and admits that Kishida was her boyfriend in college, but he dumped her for Aiko. So she decided to kill him at the same place where they had their first date.
While consoluing Ran, who was upset by the crime, Shinichi sees one of the men in black headed somewhere and decides to follow him. He tells Ran to go home without him and Ran has a strange feeling she will never see him again. Shinichi spies on the man in black making a blackmail transaction with a company president. Distracted by the scene, the other man in black hits Shinichi from behind, knocking him near unconcious. Before they leave, the men in black give Shinichi a "new poison" that leaves no trace behind in the body. Shinichi's body is burning up and he thinks of Ran before finally losing consciousness. When he awakens, he is found by security guards who refer to him as a "boy". The last panel reveals that Shinichi now has the body of a 7 year old.
Characters introduced
Company President's Daughter Case
File 002 - The Great Detective Turned Small
Characters introduced
File 003 - The Unwelcome Great Detective
File 004 - The Sixth Smokestack
File 005 - The Other Perpetrator
Bloody Idol Case
File 006 - From Third-Rate to Great Detective
Characters introduced
File 007 - The Bloody Case of the Lovely Pop Idol
File 008 - Resemblance
File 009 - An Unfortunate Misunderstanding
See also
