When a tabloid publisher is murdered, the hardest part of the case may be finding someone who doesn’t want him dead. A cold case heats up when a body is found with the character for "death" written nearby. And when the Junior Detective League stumbles on a crime while camping, Anita risks exposing her secret identity.
As he solves these cases, Conan keeps running into three suspicious characters: overly friendly neighbor Subaru Okiya, eager young private eye Toru Amuro and teen detective Masumi Sera... Which of them is the Man (or Woman) in Black codenamed Bourbon?
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.