Case Closed, Vol. 53

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 Kaito Kid has vowed to steal a famous artist's latest painting--and Conan is at the scene! But while Conan prepares to stop the theft, a man is killed under his nose. Is the Kid a thief and a murderer?

Then a small boy is the only witness to a crime, but no one can make heads or tails of his strange testimony. And Conan is distracted by his suspicions about Rachel's new friend Eisuke, who bears an eerie resemblance to one of the Men in Black!

Author: Gosho Aoyama
Publisher: Viz Media
Published: 01/13/2015
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.40h x 4.90w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9781421565095
ISBN10: 1421565099
BISAC Categories:
- Comics & Graphic Novels | East Asian Style | Manga | General
- Comics & Graphic Novels | Media Tie-In
- Comics & Graphic Novels | Action & Adventure

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.