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...

At a mystery-themed college party, a fire threatens the life of a pretty freshman--and Conan suspects arson. But Rachel is more worried by the discovery that the victim has a past with Jimmy Kudo. Can she compete with Jimmy's beautiful, brilliant first love? Then the Junior Detective League stumbles upon a counterfeiting operation led by a woman in black, and Conan finds himself on the trail of the shadowy crime syndicate that turned him into a kid--and the scientist who created the de-aging formula

At long last, Conan has located the scientist responsible for the formula that turned him into a kid. Trouble is, she's taken the formula herself--and she can't change back Together, Conan and the diminutive doctor track down a floppy disk that may contain the secret to curing their condition, only to find the former owner crushed under a fallen bookshelf. Can they crack both the locked-room mystery and the locked disk?

Surely the Junior Detective League can't get into any trouble at an afternoon monster movie. But when a man in the audience dies, Conan and Anita realize that the real monster isn't the big green behemoth on the screen. Then Rachel gets her own movie moment, playing Rose--minus Jack--at the prow of a glittering ocean liner. When a suspicious explosion kills the romance, it's time for Conan and teen detective Harley Hartwell to make sure that the passengers' hearts will go on

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.

The Play's the Thing: Conan wakes up in the hospital, the victim of a gunshot wound...and things just go downhill from there. Soon Harley is back in town, Anita is packing heat, and Rachel seems to have realized at last that Conan and Jimmy Kudo are one and the same. But the drama...

R to L (Japanese Style)

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.

The Mermaid VanishesWhile Conan tries to prove that a corpse found deep in the woods was the victim of more than just a hunting accident, the Junior Detective League gains a new member: a curious bear cub Then Detective Moore's office is graced by a...

The mystery series that inspired the hit anime

Reads R to L (Japanese Style), for T+ audiences. With a BangWhen a car bomb goes off at a ticker-tape parade, Conan is onto one of the biggest cases of his career: a terrorist attack on Tokyo. A videotape intercepted from the crime scene may have captured the culprit's face, but while the Metropolitan Police and the Junior Detective League study the footage without success, the bombings keep escalating And for Detective Sato, the case brings back bad memories. Can she and Conan crack the mystery before the bomber takes down the...

It's Conan versus the Phantom Thief. When Conan's elementary school friends decide to become super sleuths, they form the Junior Detective League. But will they get into more trouble than they can handle? Rated for older teens.

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 P.I. 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 a dead body turns up.

Volume 15 continues the adventures of Jimmy Kudo, who has been transformed from a high school-age mystery fan to a puny grade schooler by a strange chemical. Now calling himself Detective Conan, he helps his girlfriend's incompetent private-detective father solve gruesome murders. Recommended for older teens.