Case Closed, Vol. 97

By (author) Aoyama Gosho
Short description/annotation:
Can Detective Conan crack the case…while trapped in a kid’s body?
Description:
Can Detective Conan crack the case…while trapped in a kid’s body?

When ace high school detective Jimmy Kudo is fed a mysterious substance by a pair of nefarious men in black—poof! He is physically transformed into a first grader. Until Jimmy can find a cure for his miniature malady, he takes on the pseudonym Conan Edogawa and continues to solve all the cases that come his way.

THE CHEF WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD

A serial killer stalks a group of people taking shelter in a snowbound mountain church. Conan, Mr. Moore, and Amuro are on the case—but so is Wakita, the mystery-loving (and mysterious) sushi chef. Who will serve up the solution first?

Then the Junior Detective League goes on a trip to forage for wild vegetables, only to stumble on a fresh corpse. And when an antiques appraiser is murdered, Conan suspects the motive is a valuable Chinese platter. But with two forgeries at the crime scene, it’s hard to identify the real antique or the real killer!
Biographical note:
Gosho Aoyama made his debut in 1986 with Chotto Mattete (Wait a Minute), which won Shogakukan’s prestigious Shinjin Comic Taisho (Newcomer’s Award for Comics) and launched his career as a critically acclaimed, top-selling manga artist. In addition to Case Closed, which won the Shogakukan Manga Award in 2001, Aoyama created the popular manga Yaiba: Samurai Legend, which won the Shogakukan Manga Award in 1992. Aoyama’s manga is greatly influenced by his boyhood love for mystery, adventure, and baseball, and he has cited the tales of Arsène Lupin and Sherlock Holmes, along with the samurai films of Akira Kurosawa, as some of his childhood favorites.