Case Closed, Volume 37, Paperback

The mystery series that inspired the hit anime

Reads R to L (Japanese Style), for T+ audiences. A Study in Black It started as a simple case: find a missing computer programmer suspected of scamming his clients. But when Detective Moore finds his man, Conan finds something else--evidence of the elusive Men in Black Can an abandoned diary put Conan on the trail of the criminal syndicate that de-aged him? What clues are coded into the go board the computer genius left behind? For the first time, Conan gets close to the Black Organization--too close for comfort

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.