The Shifting Mystery of Beika City

Episode 857-858 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
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Information
Title:	The Mystery of Beika Street Crossroad
Japanese title:	米花町二転三転ミステリー (Beikachō Nitensanten Misuterī)
Original airdate:	April 29, 2017 (Part 1) May 6, 2017 (Part 2)
Broadcast rating:	6.1% 6.6%
Season:	26
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Kazunobu Chiba
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa
Next Conan's Hint:	The ABC Murders (Part 1) Mystery magazines (Part 2)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Rikiya Koyama as Kogoro Mouri Chafurin as Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi Isshin Chiba as Kazunobu Chiba Takahiro Yoshino as Tatsuya Amagi Jin Horikawa as Hikoichi Bando Tatsuhisa Suzuki as Yosuke Chino Umeka Shoji as Hiro Ezaki Reiko Suzuki as Toyoko Kamemitsu Rina Kitagawa as Koyuki Gamo Ryuu Yamaguchi as Tameo Fukuda Kotaro Shinohara as Zetto Ichimura Yumiko Konatsu as Eiko Hayama
Music
Opening song:	Ikusen no Meikyuu de Ikusen no Nazo wo Toite
Closing song:	YESTERDAY LOVE
Chronology
Prev episode:	« The Secret of the Celebrity Couple
Next episode:	The Mountain Route of Darkness »
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Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Kazunobu Chiba

Case

Situation

Murder

Location: Near the Condominium Victim: Tatsuya Amagi Age: 24 Years old Time: 9:00 p.m Cause of death: Stab wounds in Torso Suspects: Tameo Fukuda, Toyoko Kamemitsu, Hiro Ezaki, Hikoichi Bando, Yosuke Chino, Koyuki Gamo, and all of the people in his neighborhood Amagi's murder was obviously motivated by hatred, and the most complicating factor is that he was practically despised by everyone in the neighborhood due to his crude, violent manner and perpetuated acts of disorderly conduct, such as revving up his motorbike on the street in the dead of night.

Murder

Location: Bando's House Victim: Hikoichi Bando Age: 35 Years old Time: 9:00 p.m Cause of death: Poison (Pesticide) Suspect: Yosuke Chino According to the police, they found Bando's card near the body, so they went to his house, and found him dead. And the reason why Chino became a suspect because his lighter were found under the sofa. A college student named Hiro Ezaki was pestering him, saying "It's a good thing that Bando killed Amagi, that's what he deserved."

People

Tatsuya Amagi
	Victim (stabbed) 24 years old Nuisance guy

Tameo Fukuda
	33 years old Office Worker

Hikoichi Bando
	Victim (poison) 35 years old Neighborhood Association President

Hiro Ezaki
	20 years old College Student

Toyoko Kamemitsu
	68 years old Cafe Manager

Koyuki Gamo
	23 years old Waitress

Yosuke Chino
	35 years old College Professor

Eiko Hayama
	55 years old Hikoichi Bando's Housekeeper

Zetto Ichimura
	32 years old Editor

Man
	Hiro Ezaki's lover

Dorosue Yamiyo
	Author of the book named "The Melting Weapon

Resolution

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Amagi and Bando were murdered by Toyoko Kamemitsu, but under a more indirect motive. Kamemitsu, a passionate mystery fan, had written a book titled The Melting Weapon and submitted it under the pen name "Yamiyo Dorosue" to the publishing company where Chino worked as a reviewer and censor. However, Chino judged the script as being too awful for publishing, and he openly voiced his derision of the author's writing skills and her pen name while visiting Kamemitsu's café, without knowing that he was addressing the very subject of his criticism. Thereupon Kamemitsu decided to take revenge on Chino by framing him for the murders of Tatsuya Amagi, since he was already hated by most of his neighbors, and Hikoichi Bando because he had been too negligent in challenging Amagi for his disorderly conduct.

Conan's clue for discovering Kamemitsu's guilt were the mystery books she had brought to her café and removed after the murders; all of them featured short stories she had already successfully published, and Agatha Christie's The ABC Murders, on which the case was incidentally patterned based on the victims' last names and Kamemitsu's pen name. Kamemitsu, admitting her guilt, subtly left those clues so that only a true mystery fan - who would be Conan - would be able to expose her as the culprit.

In the episode's post-credit scene, a short review of The Melting Weapon is provided, demonstrating that Chino's assessment actually had a solid basis in fact. Kamemitsu had proposed a highly unrealistic murder method using a poisoned-covered slug as a weapon. While the victim was asleep, the murderer would release the slug into his bedroom. When the slug ended up on the victim's face, the poison would seep through the skin into his bloodstream, killing him, and the salty sweat exuded by the victim's death throes would melt the slug away, leaving no murder weapon.

Trivia

The name "Dorosue" is probably a reference to mystery author Dorothy L. Sayers.

The name of Kamemitsu's cafe is "Brown," which is probably a reference to G.K. Chesterton's detective priest, Father Brown.

See also

• Season 26