Volume 31-40
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Volume 31 was released on March 17, 2001 in Japan, then on September 15, 2009 in the US.
List of chapters
The following is a list of chapters for Volume 31 to 40.
Who is Vermouth, that terrific Organization member probably knowing about Conan's and Haibara's secret ? Will the two be able to escape him/her ? Are they really alone in their fight ?
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| 31 | 307-317 | March 17, 2001 | ISBN 4-09-126161-2 | September 15, 2009 | ISBN 1-4215-2199-7 |   
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After solving the pottery murder, a man pretending to be Kogoro Mouri. At a beach resort, a man goes missing during a party and is found dead in the ocean inside a neat. During Heiji's Kendo match, a person is murdered. When the people who found him tried to tell others about it, his body disappeared but is found dead in the showers. Heiji attempts to solve it before Conan arrives and to solve it. Later in Osaka, a murder from thirteen years ago re-appears, it involves the Ruler's treasure. A man is murdered in the Ruler's palace.
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| 32 | 318-328 | April 18, 2001 | ISBN 4-09-126162-0 | November 17, 2009 | ISBN 1-4215-2200-4 |
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As more people start to die, Heiji solves the case with the help of his father. A friend of the famous celebrity Yoko is having a wedding and Yoko invites Mouri and his family. With the gathering of many celebrities the bride later is found critically wounded making one of the celebrities a suspect. A man named James Black is mistaken to be the master of a circus and kidnapped due to that, he leaves behind a clue to his disappearance on a strip tied to a keychain. Later, Sato's mother sets her up with a marriage plan and Detective Takagi must solve a robbery before stopping Sato's engagement.
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| 33 | 329-339 | July 18, 2001 | ISBN 4-09-126163-9 | January 9, 2010 | ISBN 1-4215-2884-3 | 
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It's valentine's day and Mouri, Ran, Conan, are taken by Sonoko to a house above the snowy mountains where they make chocolates to make your love come true. A man is murdered in the storm and the legend about the snow lady is to be blamed. Later a murder occurs in a man's home when he hires the Detective Boys to search his house for a watch. Ran and Conan try to figure out what "X" means. A man is murdered at the mall and his dying message is on the latter with the symbols O X Δ.
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| 34 | 340-350 | September 18, 2001 | ISBN 4-09-126164-7 | March 16, 2010 | ISBN 1-4215-2885-1 | 
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After solving the previous case, an unknown person stole Mouri's investigation records and Conan suspects it's the Black Organization. With Heiji's persistent, he investigates Ms Jodie to see if she really is Vermouth. While there, a man jumps off a building, but it turns out it was a murder. After a soccer game, a man is killed in a crowded train. At a restaurant a man is poisoned by food at the table. When the case is solved, Ran faints in the restaurant and gets a fever, as she experiences flash backs about Shinichi's past case in New York.
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| 35 | 351-361 | December 18, 2001 | ISBN 4-09-126165-5 | July 13, 2010 | ISBN 1-4215-2886-X | 
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After dreaming about the first case, Ran remembers why Shuichi Akai was familiar to her. She saw him in New York, as an FBI. After checking with doctor Tomoaki Araide, one of his patients tells Mouri about a haunted apartment. He goes to investigate and the ghost incidences occur, a ghost in the television, red water in the toilet, and the ghosts face floating outside a window. Mitsuhiko skipped school and is at a forest for unknown reason. The Detective boys try to search for him and when they arrive there, they find out a serial killer is also in the forest. At the beach, Mouri, Ran, Conan, Heiji, and Kazuha are having fun when a tv station invites Heiji and Mouri to solve the case of dead bodies with inscriptions beside them.
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| 36 | 362-372 | February 18, 2002 | ISBN 4-09-126166-3 | October 12, 2010 | ISBN 1-4215-2887-8 |
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A threatening letter is sent to the police about an event that will happen during a Tokyo parade. It relates to a bombing crime in the past. Takaki disguised as Matsuda and the bombings causes Sato to suffer flashbacks. They arrested a bank robber with relations to the crime, but it turns out to be only coincidental and that the bomber is still on the lose. A riddled letter is left found near one of the bombings, revealing the location of a bomb big enough to destroy a tower. Conan and Takagi find the bomb, but realize that another bomb lies in the wait, and that during the last three seconds to detonation, a hint will reveal the bombs location. If they wait for the hint, Conan and Takagi will die in the explosion and if they dismantle it, more people will die.
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| 37 | 373-382 | April 18, 2002 | ISBN 4-09-126167-1 | January 11, 2011 | ISBN 1-4215-2888-6 |
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Mouri is invited to make a cameo appearance in a detective show. A murder occurs and its lead actor is killed. Can Mouri solve the case without Conan's help? Later, Conan picks up the trail of a black organization member. He is later found dead from a staged heart attack. Conan manages to take the data disk of the man's diary and finds out a meeting is arranged with Vodka. On the way there, the car breaks down but they manage to get a ride with two suspicious people.
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| 38 | 383-392 | July 18, 2002 | ISBN 4-09-126168-X | April 12, 2011 | ISBN 1-4215-2889-2 |
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Conan uses his inflatable soccer ball to capture two bank robbers. He plants the data disk in the locker with various devices to try and track down the black organization, but was thwarted due to Gin. At an old ladies house, a burglary takes place but only a picture was taken, the clue to it are Hina dolls. Later a team of wrestlers with wolf masks invite Mouri to a game. One of the wrestler is killed. Heiji and Kazuha are kidnapped and are forced to solve a code to be released. Their only hope is for Conan to find small clues Heiji left behind.
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| 39 | 393-403 | November 18, 2002 | ISBN 4-09-126169-8 | July 12, 2011 | ISBN 1-4215-3499-1 |
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A local arsonist is setting flames about to buildings, his signature of his work is the shape of a horse. Later, Ayumi sets out to call Haibara as Ai-chan when the Detective boys go camping. They meet up with people and finds one of them dead on the road. Next, a child movie star asks Mouri to help find his mother so he could rub into her face his fame and fortune. The only clue to the mother is a mole on her body.
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| 40 | 404-413 | February 18, 2003 | ISBN 4-09-126170-1 | October 11, 2011 | ISBN 1-4215-3500-9 |
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Takagi is on a date with Sato and plans to give her a ring but gets his bag mixed with up with a drug dealer's. On the way to play Tennis, Mouri gets his car washed down the river. When he tries to reel it in with his fishing rod, he knocks Conan down. When they chase him, they become lost but end up finding a house. The man who owns the house invites him. Later his father is found dead. Due to the river, Conan becomes sick and loses his voice, unable to help Mouri solve the case. The Detective Boys find a letter from Agasa's first love, who promises to meet up at "Their memorable place" every decade. Since it's that time of year again, the Detective Boys try and find the memorable place before the day ends. Mouri is paid before hand to solve a case. Later he ends up being in dept and Ran calls her mother to help solve the case. Conan accompanies them to the client and finds his mother there.
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