Case Closed, Vol. 56 - by Gosho Aoyama (Paperback)

About the Book

Stranded in the woods, Conan and his friends take shelter at a spooky old house only to witness a seemingly supernatural murder. The knife-wielding old lady who lives there couldn't be a witch, could she? Then Conan finds a lead in his ongoing investigation of Eisuke, Rachel's suspicious new friend. But by the time he gets there the information is missing. To get the facts, Conan has to solve the crime!

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.

Stranded in the woods, Conan and his friends take shelter at a spooky old house--only to witness a seemingly supernatural murder. The knife-wielding old lady who lives there couldn't be a witch...or could she?

Then Conan finds a lead in his ongoing investigation of Eisuke, Rachel's suspicious new friend. But by the time he gets there, the source is dead and the information is missing. To get the facts, Conan has to solve the crime!

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.