| Volume 28
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July 18, 2000
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ISBN 4-09-125498-5
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Shogakukan
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March 17, 2009
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ISBN 1-4215-2196-2
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Viz Media
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| Featured Detective & Keyhole
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| Aoyama's death & Conan side images
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Volume 28 was released on July 18, 2000 in Japan.
Cast
Gadgets
Bear Hunters Case
File 274 - The Shrunken Target
File 275 - True Motive
People
Old Photograph Murder Case
Anime Episode 220-221:
The Client Full of LiesCharacters introduced
File 276 - The Client Full of Lies
File 277 - The Evidence Held
File 278 - The Horrifying Woman
People
Mermaid's Curse Case
Shiho Miyano's name is in a guestbook logging past contestants for the immortality arrows
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.
File 280 - The Elder's Prophecy
The body is Toshimi. The cause of death was hanging. It is uncertain to determent if it was an accident or a murder, but Heiji asks what she would be doing in the forest instead of attending the festival at the waterfall. Naoko suggests that she was looking for a grave of a mermaid. Three years ago after the festival, a warehouse near the shrine was burned to the ground and a body was found in the remains. The body is buried in the forest. Kimie recalls that Toshimi often spoke of that grave. Skeptical Heiji asks if it really was a mermaid's body. Kimie says that the locals thinks so, but the police determined that the body was of a middle aged woman. Naoko and Rokuro futher tells that the body didn't have any legs, and that is the reason behind the idea that it was a mermaid. It gained a lot of attention and the Elder became famous. Kimie tells that the police concluded that it might have been a tourist who was searching for an extra arrow and accidently set the warehouse on fire. It was never discovered who it was and the bones were buried on the island, but later moved to a secret spot in the forest on orders from the Elder after tourists had been trying to steal bones from the grave, since it is said that a bone from a mermaid gives long life.
Rokuro doesn't appear to grieve much over the death of his fiancée, since the engagement was arranged by their parents.
After moving Toshimi's body from the forest, the group decides to ask the Elder how she picks the winning number for the contest. But the Elder claims that it's just random picking. The Elder then warns Kazuha that if she loses her arrow, bad fortune will follow her.
The next day there is hold a wave for Toshimi at her family's home, but then Naoko is found dead outside the house, strangled by fishing net.
File 281 - The Devil's Arrow
Naoko's crime scene is set up to make it appear she was murdered by a mermaid. And her Dugong Arrow is missing. The police arrives from the coast and takes over the investigation. Conan and Heiji discuss the case. The two victims and the missing Saori has one thing in common. They all three believe that the Elder was immortal and in the power of the arrow.
File 282 - The Last Arrow
File 283 - Uncompensated Heart
People
Girl Clubbing Case
Anime Episode 217-218:
Megure's Sealed SecretCharacters introduced
File 284 - The Buried Secret
People
Cover in other countries
Trivia
Shiho Miyano's name is listed among contestants in the Dungong's arrow festival. Conan noticed this, but doubts that it is her.
See also
