About the book

Detective Conan (名探偵コナン)  is a Japanese detective manga series written and illustrated by Gosho Aoyama. The series is serialized in Shogakukan’s Weekly Shōnen Sunday from 1994, and subsequently collected in “tankōbon” individual volumes, which has sold over 140 million copies worldwide.

The series  won the 46th Shogakukan Manga Award for the shōnen category in 2000, and has been adaptated into video games, live action series, movies and an anime series.  A Detective Conan movie has also been released each year in Japan since 1997. 

Shogakukan Asia has selected the best stories from the collection of Detective Conan series, and complied them into individual standalone volumes to enjoy.

Summary of the book

The pint-sized detective takes on the phantom thief in a thrilling game of outwit, outplay and outbluff!

The Suzuki Conglomerate is hosting an exclusive party on the Q Selizabeth, unaware that Japan’s most notorious phantom thief, a.k.a. the Kaito Kid, is set on leaving the event with one very expensive party favour!!

Then six master detectives are invited to a manor to play a deadly mysterious game, hosted by none other than the Kid himself! But he wasn’t counting on a seventh kid detective gate-crashing the scene! Can Conan outsmart Kaito Kid at his own game?

The battle of wits begins in this two-part special!