The Metropolitan Police force is in an uproar over the big news: at long last, star-crossed police detectives Sato and Takagi are going on a date! But their romantic afternoon at an amusement park turns into a roller-coaster ride when they find a backpack full of smuggled heroin. Can Conan catch the drug runners and save the detectives' date? Then the Junior Detective League decides to track down Doc Agasa's long-lost first love. But to find her, they'll have to crack a numerical code that takes them on a wild goose chase through the local zoo!

 

 

This book is part of a book series called Case Closed .

This book has been graded for interest at 13-17 years.

There are 184 pages in this book.

It is aimed at Young Adult readers. The term Young Adult (YA) is used for books which have the following characteristics: (1) aimed at ages 12-18 years, US grades 7-12, UK school years 8-15, (2) around 50-75k words long, (3) main character is aged 12-18 years, (4) topics include self-reflection, internal conflict vs external, analyzing life and its meaning, (5) point of view is often in the first person, and (6) swearing, violence, romance and sexuality are allowed.

This book was published in 2011 by Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc .

Gosho Aoyama made his debut in 1992 with Chotto Matte (Wait a Minute), which won Shogakukan's prestigious Shinjin Comic Taisho (Newcomer's Award for Comics) and launched his career as a critically acclaimed, top-selling manga artist. In addition to Detective Conan, which won the Shogakukan Manga Award in 2001, Aoyama created the popular manga Yaiba, which won the Shogakukan Manga Award in 1992. Aoyama's manga is greatly influenced by his boyhood love for mystery, adventure and baseball, and he has cited the tales of Arsene Lupin and Sherlock Holmes and the samurai films of Akira Kurosawa as some of his childhood favorites.