Case Closed, Vol. 86

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.

When an heiress drowns in a hotel pool, Conan and Sera are on the scene to dredge up the truth. Then a screenwriter is found dead in a scenario straight out of one of her mystery scripts. And Conan and Harley investigate a mythical beast that seems to be committing very real murders.

Meanwhile, Conan tries to learn something--anything--about Rum, the high-ranking Man in Black who's as secretive as he is dangerous. There's also the question of the strange little girl monitoring Conan and his friends from a distance. With these mysteries lurking in the shadows, how can Conan keep his mind on his cases?


About the Author
Gosho Aoyama made his debut in 1992 with Chotto Matte (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 Detective Conan, which won the Shogakukan Manga Award in 2001, Aoyama created the popular manga Yaiba, 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 Arsene Lupin and Sherlock Holmes and the samurai films of Akira Kurosawa as some of his childhood favorites.