Magic Lover's Murder Case

Episode 132-134 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	Magic Lover's Murder Case
Original airdate:	January 25, 1999 (The Murder) February 1, 1999 (The Suspicion) February 8, 1999 (The Resolution)
Season:	5
Manga source:	Volume 20: Files 2~6
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki
Case solved by:	Sonoko Suzuki (via Conan)
Chronology
Prev episode:	« The Indiscriminate Stadium Threatening Case
Next episode:	The Disappearing Weapon Case »
List of episodes

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Kogoro Mouri Inspector Megure Wataru Takagi Kaitou Kid

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch Button Speaker

Plot

The Murder

Sonoko invites Ran, to attend a meeting full of avid magic fans she met online. After dropping her off at the snow lounge, Conan and Kogoro return home. During the ride, they hear on the radio that one of the members, Tatsuo Nashiyama, is found dead in his home and that his dying message was the name Dark Master, one of the members of the club.

Murder
	Victim: Tatsuo Nashiyama

Conan rushes back to the lounge only to find out the only bridge across is on fire. Conan rushes through the bridge before it collapses and arrives at the lounge. Toshiya Hamano is later found dead ten metres from the lounge.

Murder
	Victim: Toshiya Hamano

Conan wonders how the murder was done since no footprint was found in the snow.

The Suspicion

The members of the lounge decide to leave the Hamano's body untouched to preserve the crime scene and retreat back into the lounge. They discuss among themselves and believe that the club member with the Username Dark Master is the murderer. Conan, Ran, Kikue Tanaka, and Katsuki Doito, head upstairs to retrieve a sweater. While upstairs, an arrow breaks through the window and almost hits them. At the same time, another arrow breaks through the window on the bottom floor. The people of the lounge head outside to investigate and find a crossbow on the ground. The people begin to believe that the culprit is an outsider of the club. Conan investigates and notices that there was evidence that something was stapled to the outside of the house. Conan realizes how the murders are done.

The Resolution

Conan recreates the crossbow attack on the top floor and lures everyone outside.

People

Kikue Tanaka
	28 years old Handle: Imposter child

Toshiya Hamano
	Victim (strangulation) 27 years old Handle: Disappearing bunny

Naoko Kuroda
	25 years old Handle: Illusion

Yoshinori Ara
	46 years old Lodge owner

Kiyohiro Sugama
	23 years old Part-time worker

Katsuki Doito
	21 years old Handle: Red Herring

Resolution

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Using a tranquilizer, Conan knocks Sonoko out and reveals the culprit to be Kikue Tanaka. Conan reveals that the crossbow incident was simple, Kikue pulled a string with an object at the end to break the window, and fired a concealed crossbow to create the idea the attack was coming from the outside. She did the same for the bottom window but had the arrow stuck to the mirror prepared beforehand. As for Hamano's murder, Kikue strangled him, and using resilient strings, fired them from the balcony to the forest until there was enough to support Hamano's weight. She then tied a string around Hamano's body and used the positioned string to slide the body downwards. She then tied all the strings into another arrow and fired it off. As evidence, Conan reveals that the arrows were specialized to have string connected to them and that they should be found on Tanaka's body somewhere. Tanaka confesses to the murder and reveals that the group members online prompted her grandfather, a famous magician, to attempt a dangerous trick which resulted in his death. Conan meanwhile confronts Katsuki Doito and reveals that his name is the anagram for Kaitou Kid. Kaitou Kid reveals that he saw that someone was on the magician's account and wanted to investigate it and escapes the lounge with the use of his hang glider.

See also

• Season 5