Case Closed, Vol. 80 - by Gosho Aoyama (Paperback)

About the Book

Parental advisory: "[R]ecommended for ages 16 and up. This volume contains realistic and graphic violence"--Indicia.

Book Synopsis

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.

Chasing a stray cat, the Junior Detective League stumbles upon a chilling crime. Before they know it, they're trapped in a refrigerated truck with a corpse, and Conan has to figure out how to escape before they become kid-sicles!

Then a cooking show heats up when one of the judges is found dead in the secret ingredient, proving that revenge isn't always a dish best served cold. And Conan suspects a suicide case is really murder...but the chief suspect is Officer Yumi's ex-boyfriend!

About the Author

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.