Case Closed, Vol. 9

By Gosho Aoyama

Can Detective Conan crack the case...while trapped in a kid's 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.

The Junior Detective League takes action While playing hide and seek, first-grader Amy discovers a chopped-off head. Will Conan and friends be able to save Amy from a serial murderer?

And when Richard Moore attends a reunion of his college friends, one of them ends up with a bullet hole to her temple and a gun in her hand. Was it suicide or murder?

Later, Conan, Richard, and Rachel attend the birthday party of the daughter of a wealthy financier. But Conan's deductive skills are put to the test when the birthday girl ends up missing and someone turns up dead.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 142150166X
• ISBN13: 9781421501666
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Viz Media
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.9" x 7.4"

Customer Reviews

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Gosho Aoyama, Case Closed, vol. 9 (ViZ, 2004) I admit to some prejudice here-- this volume of the manga contains the storyline that got my daughter and I watching the anime last year-- but despite this one being the same brand of episodic, not terribly well-plotted stuff as the last two volumes, I liked it better. Three stories here. First, a Junior Detective League story, in which Amy is inadvertently kidnapped and the others have to rescue her using Doc's turbocharged skateboard, more of an action comic than the usual mystery. Second, the wrestling team reunion story that got us watching the anime-- Richard's old high school wrestling team gets together, and one of the commits suicide-- or does she? Last, a girl's twenty-fourth birthday party goes horribly wrong when she goes missing and one of the guests turns up dead. Not too shabby, this one. I'm hoping that means it's getting back on track. ****