Volume 1

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| **Volume 1** | |
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| **Information** | |
| Release date: | June 18, 1994   October 18, 2024 (Special Edition)[](#cite_note-1) |
| Chapters: | 001-009 |
| ISBN: | ISBN 4-09-123371-6   ISBN 978-4-09-853553-8 (Special Edition) |
| Publisher: | [Shogakukan](/wiki/Shogakukan "Shogakukan") |
| English release date: | September 7, 2004 |
| English ISBN: | ISBN 1-59116-327-7 |
| English Publisher: | [Viz Media](/wiki/Viz_Media "Viz Media") |
| **Featured Detective & Keyhole** | |
| |  |  | | --- | --- | | [Sherlock Holmes](/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes "Sherlock Holmes") | [Shinichi Kudo](/wiki/Shinichi_Kudo "Shinichi Kudo") | | |
| **Aoyama's death & Conan side images** | |
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Volume 1 was released on June 18, 1994 in Japan. The special edition of Volume 1 was released on October 18, 2024, which includes all color pages and newly drawn prologue chapter *"File 0"*.
## Contents
* [1 Chapters](#Chapters)
+ [1.1 Prologue - Roller Coaster Murder Case](#Prologue_-_Roller_Coaster_Murder_Case)
- [1.1.1 Characters introduced](#Characters_introduced)
- [1.1.2 File 001 - The Heisei Holmes](#File_001_-_The_Heisei_Holmes)
- [1.1.3 People](#People)
- [1.1.4 *Major events*](#Major_events)
+ [1.2 Company President's Daughter Case](#Company_President.27s_Daughter_Case)
- [1.2.1 Characters introduced](#Characters_introduced_2)
- [1.2.2 File 002 - The Great Detective Turned Small](#File_002_-_The_Great_Detective_Turned_Small)
- [1.2.3 File 003 - The Unwelcome Great Detective](#File_003_-_The_Unwelcome_Great_Detective)
- [1.2.4 File 004 - The Sixth Smokestack](#File_004_-_The_Sixth_Smokestack)
- [1.2.5 File 005 - The Other Perpetrator](#File_005_-_The_Other_Perpetrator)
- [1.2.6 People](#People_2)
- [1.2.7 *Major events*](#Major_events_2)
+ [1.3 Bloody Idol Case](#Bloody_Idol_Case)
- [1.3.1 Characters introduced](#Characters_introduced_3)
- [1.3.2 Gadgets introduced](#Gadgets_introduced)
- [1.3.3 File 006 - From Third-Rate to Great Detective](#File_006_-_From_Third-Rate_to_Great_Detective)
- [1.3.4 File 007 - The Bloody Case of the Lovely Pop Idol](#File_007_-_The_Bloody_Case_of_the_Lovely_Pop_Idol)
- [1.3.5 File 008 - Resemblance](#File_008_-_Resemblance)
- [1.3.6 File 009 - An Unfortunate Misunderstanding](#File_009_-_An_Unfortunate_Misunderstanding)
- [1.3.7 People](#People_3)
- [1.3.8 *Major events*](#Major_events_3)
+ [1.4 Special edition appendix](#Special_edition_appendix)
- [1.4.1 File 0 - Awkward Couple](#File_0_-_Awkward_Couple)
- [1.4.2 People](#People_4)
* [2 Trivia](#Trivia)
* [3 Cover in other countries](#Cover_in_other_countries)
* [4 References](#References)
* [5 See also](#See_also)
## Chapters[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Volume_1&action=edit&section=1 "Edit section: Chapters")]
### Prologue - Roller Coaster Murder Case[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Volume_1&action=edit&section=2 "Edit section: Prologue - Roller Coaster Murder Case")]
Anime Episode 1: [Roller Coaster Murder Case](/wiki/Roller_Coaster_Murder_Case "Roller Coaster Murder Case")
#### Characters introduced[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Volume_1&action=edit&section=3 "Edit section: Characters introduced")]
- | [Shinichi Kudo](/wiki/Shinichi_Kudo "Shinichi Kudo") | |
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|  | * 16-17 years old * High school student * Detective |
- | [Ran Mouri](/wiki/Ran_Mouri "Ran Mouri") | |
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|  | * 16 years old * High school student * Karate champion |
- | [Juzo Megure](/wiki/Juzo_Megure "Juzo Megure") | |
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|  | * [Inspector](/wiki/Police_Organization "Police Organization") from [Tokyo Metropolitan Police](/wiki/Tokyo_Metropolitan_Police "Tokyo Metropolitan Police") |
- | [Man in Black](/wiki/Gin "Gin") | |
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|  | * Involved in suspicious dealings |
- | [Man in Black](/wiki/Vodka "Vodka") | |
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|  | * Involved in suspicious dealings |
#### File 001 - The Heisei Holmes[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Volume_1&action=edit&section=4 "Edit section: File 001 - The Heisei Holmes")]
Shinichi names the culprit
Main article: [The Heisei Holmes](/wiki/The_Heisei_Holmes "The Heisei Holmes")
At a party in a mansion, high school detective Shinichi Kudo solves the murder of the host's wife for Inspector Megure: the wheelchair-bound host is the killer and his broken leg healed weeks ago. The next day, the newspapers and TV reporters proclaim Shinichi's latest success, but his childhood friend Ran Mouri is upset at him for once again taking business away from her father, a private detective. She reminds him of his promise to take her to [Tropical Land](/wiki/Tropical_Land "Tropical Land"), since she won her karate tournament.
When they go, Shinichi spends a lot of time talking about his idol, [Sherlock Holmes](/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes "Sherlock Holmes"), and even deduces that a woman in line with them for a roller coaster is a gymnast using Holmes's classic observation style. This focus on Holmes upsets Ran a little, as she was looking forward to a day with *just* Shinichi. On the roller coaster, a man named Kishida is mysteriously beheaded in the tunnel. The suspects are the victim's girlfriend Aiko, their friends Hitomi (the gymnast) and Hitomi's friend, and two mysterious men in black. After Inspector Megure and the police arrive, they discover a bloody knife in Aiko's bag and arrest her.
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However, Shinichi explains that a woman wouldn't have the strength to decapitate someone with just a knife. He then explains that the killer used an object like a purse or a backpack to escape the ride restraints and wrap a wire around the victim's head while in the darkness of the Mystery Coaster's tunnel. After tying the wire around the victim's head the killer tossed a hook attached to the other end onto the roller coaster's track, beheading the victim using the coaster's speed and movement.
Shinichi concludes the murderer is **Hitomi**, as her expertise as a gymnast makes this feat possible. Shinichi proves her guilt through two crucial pieces of evidence:
1. Hitomi's pearl necklace (the murder weapon) is missing after the end of the ride.
2. Hitomi has a tear-trail on her face that runs horizontally, which is impossible unless she were crying during the course of the ride.
Hitomi breaks down and admits that Kishida was her boyfriend in college, but he dumped her for Aiko, so she decided to kill him at the same place where they had their first date.
A mysterious seven-year-old boy awakens.
While consoling Ran, who was upset by the crime, Shinichi sees one of the men in black run by and decides to follow him. He tells Ran to go home without him and Ran has a strange feeling she will never see him again, but cannot run after him because her shoelace breaks. Shinichi spies on the man in black making a blackmail transaction with a company president. With Shinichi distracted by the scene, the other man in black hits him from behind and knocks him nearly unconscious. Many cops remain in the area, so the men in black force-feed Shinichi a ["new poison"](/wiki/APTX4869 "APTX4869") that purportedly leaves no trace behind in the body to provide a cause of death. After they depart, Shinichi's body begins to steam and feel like it's burning; his last thought before finally losing consciousness is of Ran. When he awakens, he has been found by park security guards who refer to him as a "boy". The last panel reveals that Shinichi now has the body of a 6 year old.
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