Case Closed, Vol. 26
By (Author) Gosho Aoyama
26
Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc
Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc
18th November 2008
United States
General
Fiction
741.5
Paperback
184
Width 127mm, Height 191mm, Spine 15mm
177g
Can Detective Conan crack the casewhile trapped in a kids body
Jimmy Kudo, the son of a world-renowned mystery writer, is a high school detective who has cracked the most baffling of cases. One day while on a date with his childhood friend Rachel Moore, Jimmy observes a pair of men in black involved in some shady business. The men capture Jimmy and give him a poisonous substance to rub out their witness. But instead of killing him, it turns him into a little kid! Jimmy takes on the pseudonym Conan Edogawa and continues to solve all the difficult cases that come his way. All the while, he's looking for the men in black and the mysterious organization they're with in order to find a cure for his miniature malady.
Conan wakes up in the hospital, the victim of a gunshot woundand things just go downhill from there. Has Rachel finally figured out that Conan and Jimmy Kudo are one in the same
But the drama really builds when a real-life murder interrupts Rachel's school play...and a familiar teenage boy steps out of the wings to tackle the case. It's not a dream! Not a flashback! Not an imaginary story! Jimmy Kudo is back!
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.