Case Closed, Volume 33, Paperback/Gosho Aoyama

The mystery series that inspired the hit anime The mystery series that inspired the hit anime Reads R to L (Japanese Style). " Valentine's Day Massacre " Love is in the air as Conan and company face the most dangerous time of the year: Valentine's Day Detective Sato of the Metropolitan Police has reluctantly agreed to an arranged marriage--unless her partner Takagi can work up the nerve to confess his feelings for her. But first he's got to catch a convenience store stickup artist who looks completely different to every witness Can a phone call from Jimmy Kudo help him crack the case before he loses the girl? Then Rachel and Serena head to a snowbound cottage in the mountains to make some of the famous local chocolate for Valentine's Day. But the legendary snow goddess who haunts the mountains seems determined to turn their outing from sweet to bitter... When ace high school detective Jimmy Kudo is fed a mysterious substance by a pair of nefarious men in black--poof He is physically tranformed 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. 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 Award for best Manga in 2001, Aoyama created the popular manga, YAIBA, which won Shogakukan's Award for Manga 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, Sherlock Holmes, and the samurai films of Akira Kurosawa as some of his childhood favorites.