Volume 28

Matasaburo Saika
	67 years old; Hunter;

Kiyoshi Yasaka
	41 years old; Hunter;

	Volume 28
	Information
Release date:	July 18, 2000
Chapters:
ISBN:	ISBN 4-09-125498-5
Publisher:	Shogakukan
English release date:	March 17, 2009
English ISBN:	ISBN 1-4215-2196-2
English Publisher:	Viz Media
	Featured Detective & Keyhole
; Kyosuke Kamizu	; Shizuka Ikenami
	Aoyama's death & Conan side images
	Chronology
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	List of chapters • List of cases

Volume 28 was released on July 18, 2000 in Japan.

Cast

Characters

Gadgets

Voice-Changing Bowtie

Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Bear Hunters Case

Anime Episode 212-213: Mushrooms, Bears, and the Detective Boys

File 274 - The Shrunken Target

File 275 - True Motive

People

Tomoya Negoro
	28 years old Hunter

Jubei
	Female Asiatic bear

Man
	Victim (gunshot) Hunter

Old Photograph Murder Case

Anime Episode 220-221: The Client Full of Lies

Characters introduced

Shizuka Ikenami
	42 years old

Azusa Enomoto
	23 years old Worker at the Café Poirot

File 276 - The Client Full of Lies

File 277 - The Evidence Held

File 278 - The Horrifying Woman

People

Shiro Shibata
	Victim (beaten) Physical education teacher

Takezo Yoshikawa
	47 years old Shiro Shibata's friend

Kyoko Shibata
	38 years old Shiro Shibata's wife

Mermaid's Curse Case

Shiho Miyano's name is in a guestbook logging past contestants for the immortality arrows

Anime Episode 222-224: And Then There Were No Mermaids

File 279 - The Mermaid's Curse?

Heiji invites Conan, Ran and Kogoro to join him and Kazuha on a case, he got a letter about. The letter is from a woman named Saori, who lives on an island known as the mermaid island. The island is famous due to it's elder who is over 100 years old and rumored to be immortal. Apparently Saori is afraid of getting killed by mermaids. Conan isn't pleased with being dragged on this case, but Heiji reveals to him that while the letter was sent to his address it was meant for Shinichi. After arriving on the island, the group learns that Saori has disappeared three days ago. No one is worry, because it's not unusual for Saori to leave home after having a fight with her father. They meet four of Saori's childhood friend, Naoko, a shop clerk, Toshimi and her fiancée Rokuro and Kimie, a shrine maiden who is also the great-granddaughter of the elder. Each year there is a festival on the island where the elder awards three winners with a dungong arrow, that wields protection for it's bearer. Saori won one last year, but lost it last week, and up to her disappearance, she had become fearful of being cursed of mermaids. Kimie reveals that last time she saw Saori was three days ago. Kimie needed to go the dentist on the coast, and Saori went with her. She promise the group to take them to Saori's house after the festival, and offers Ran and Kazuha each a ticket to the lottery for the Dungong Arrow. She had two left after a couple cancelled. During the festival the Elder reveals the winning numbers, and Kazuha's number is one of the three. Later at the mermaid waterfall, Kazuha and the two other winners, Naoko and Saori's father, receives their arrows, but as the firework is shoot up, the audience sees a body hanging in the waterfall.