Volume 15

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Volume 15
Information
Release date:	June 18, 1997
Chapters:	141-150
ISBN:	ISBN 4-09-125045-9
Publisher:	Shogakukan
English release date:	January 16, 2007
English ISBN:	ISBN 1-4215-0445-6
English Publisher:	Viz Media
Featured Detective & Keyhole
Heizo Hasegawa Heizo Hattori
Aoyama's death & Conan side images

Volume 15 was released on June 18, 1997 in Japan.

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa

Ran Mouri

Shinichi Kudo (flashback)

Professor Agasa

Sonoko Suzuki

Gin (background)

Vodka (background)

Genta Kojima

Ayumi Yoshida

Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya

Inspector Megure

Kogoro Mouri

Heiji Hattori

Heizo Hattori

Gadgets

Gadgets

Voice-Changing Bowtie

Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Earring Cellphone

Criminal Tracking Glasses

Detective Boys Badge

Ski Lodge Case

File 143 - Truth From Tears

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The culprit is Akiko Yohehara. Minako Mochizuki had found out that Sugiyama and another teacher (Shimoda, but she didn't tell his name to Yonehara) were involved in a fraud, and added that she was planning to confront the unnamed teacher. The poor girl was found hanged in the school gym few days later, and while everyone thought Minako had commited suicide under the effect of stress over the upcoming exams, Yonehara deduced that she had been killed by Sugiyama and his accomplice. Knowing the identity of only one of Minako's two murderers, Yonehara organized the trip to gather the teachers that she knew Minako was a fan of. She first killed Sugiyama and left his body hidden outside the lodge to freeze and trick people in regards to the time of his death. Later, she attacked Sonoko to have an alibi, then immediately afterwards pretended to be a victim as well (using Sugiyama's body to such effects, that's the "Yonehara" Sonoko actually saw before being attacked), and used her lipstick to spell out Minako's name in all of these cases. Shimoda's panicked reaction upon realizing the last detail revealed his involvement to her, so she tricked him into meeting up with her and killed him as well.

The murder weapon was Yonehara's wig: she had cut her hair too short for her liking a while ago and hid it via a very long wig, and then decided to use it to strangle her victims, excluding Sonoko as seen in the picture, without leaving clues. Ran says that there were small bloody scratches on the dead Shimoda's neck, and that there are be some droplets of his blood in the wig.

Once she's uncovered, Yonehara takes off the wig. She admits her responsibility for the crimes and says she couldn't forgive teachers who betray students and injure/kill them, but then she adds she's no one to talk because she harmed Sonoko to make her trick work.

Ran, whose emotional state had slowly taken a nosedive as Conan relayed the deductions to her, gets ready to leave the room, barely reacting to Mouri telling her that he'll write a great article on "her" deductions. She sees Conan standing outside the hall, ready to "tell" her that Shinichi is gone; before he can do so, she falls to her knees and hugs him tearfully. Two hours later the snowstorm stops, and the police arrives.

People

Akiko Yonehara
	Victim (beaten - injured) 30 years old Haido Elementary School teacher

Kohei Shimoda
	Victim (strangled) 30 years old Haido Elementary School teacher

Ryuichi Sakai
	29 years old Haido Elementary School P.E. teacher

Minori Nakamura
	27 years old Haido Elementary School nurse

Sugiyama
	Victim (strangled) Haido Elementary School music teacher

Atsushi Mori
	37 years old Newspaper reporter

Minako Mochizuki
	Deceased (suicide by hanging) Haido Elementary School student

Two-Mix Kidnapping Case

Characters introduced

TWO-MIX
	Minami Takayama and Shiina Nagano Idols/Pop-stars

People

Man #1
	Kidnapper

Man #2
	Kidnapper

Loan Company President Murder Case

File 149 - A Devil's Calling

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The culprit is Takako Fujii.

People

Mitsuhiro Hida
	Victim (poison) 53 years old President of Hida Financial

Hisayoshi Minamizawa
	34 years old Employee, Hida Financial

Takako Fujii
	29 years old Employee, Hida Financial

Hiroshi Iino
	31 years old Employee, Hida Financial

Bond of Fire Case

People

Kuranosuke Take
	72 years old Butler to the Nagato family

Dosan Nagato
	60 years old Chairman of Nagato Financial group

Miyuki Hyuga
	26 years old Personal secretary to the Chairman

Nobuko Nagato
	39 years old Dosan's eldest daughter

Yasue Nagato
	32 years old Dosan's second daughter

Hideomi Nagato
	Victim (poison) 36 years old Dosan's eldest son Novelist

Mitsuaki Nagato
	Victim (impaled) 36 years old Yasue's husband; took Nagato name President of Nagato Construction

Trivia

• The title for each chapter are worded as the following in Case Closed:

• File 141 - Missing?!
• File 142 - The Missing Murder Weapon
• File 143 - The Truth, Through Tears
• File 144 - A Similar Voice?!
• File 145 - What Do They Want?
• File 146 - Duet?!
• File 147 - Finger Licking
• File 148 - Some Kind of Magic?!
• File 149 - The Devil's Summons
• File 150 - The Bloody Bandage

Cover in other countries

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  China

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  France

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  Germany

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  Hong Kong

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  Indonesia

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  Italy (Comic Art)

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  Italy (Star Comics)

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  Korea

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  Malaysia (Chinese)

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  Malaysia (Malay)

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  Norway

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  Rep. of China (Taiwan)

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  Philippines

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  Spain (Spanish, Volumen 2)

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  Spain (Spanish, Volumen 2)

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  Sweden

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  Thailand

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  United States

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  Vietnam

See also

• Manga
• Volume 11-20
• Detective Conan