Detective Conan (名探偵コナン)

Yeah.

Heave ho! Heave ho!

Heave ho! Heave ho! Heave ho!

The steam locomotive's moving!

It's always so cool!

Tamaki Yujiro (65)

Oh, no. It's already 11.

Hurry, kids.

Okay!

Heave ho! Heave ho!

Right now at this moment, light pierces the darkness!

Overcome all limits with your cool reasoning skills!

Amidst the whistling, a case occurs at everyone's favorite used bookstore!

Always determining the one truth

with the body of a child and the mind of an adult,

his name is Detective Conan!

The Whistling Bookstore 2

"The Whistling Bookstore 2!”

Mizutani

I've come from Tamaki Book Cafe to buy books.

Mizutani Akiko (50)

I've been waiting for you.

Please, come in.

Wow! There are so many books!

So, which books would you like to sell?

All of them, please.

Very well.

Now then.

Let me take a look.

Even the cheapest are worth 5,000 yen.

The expensive ones are worth over 20,000 yen.

No way. They're that valuable?

They're rare books. They're worth at least that much.

Rare books?

Valuable books that aren't very common

because they're old and unusual or limited editions.

Right?

Yeah.

For example, only 500 copies of this book were published in 1920.

There are currently many copies on the market, but this one is in good condition.

I don't care what they are.

Will you buy all of them?

Excuse me, but are these books yours?

No, they belong to my husband.

Does your husband know you're selling them?

Seems you don't have his permission.

It's fine. He's in the hospital.

They're just taking up space.

What? Are you saying you won't buy them?

No. Personally, I'd very much like to purchase them.

But please get your husband's permission to sell them.

Pretty, aren't they?

Yeah.

I took them using my phone's camera.

They're very good.

What happened?

There was a little bug inside a book.

That's a silverfish.

A silverfish? What's that?

Silverfish, written using the characters for paper and fish.

Silverfish

They're bugs that like to eat the glue in the binding of books.

They're fish even though they're bugs?

Look closely at its body.

With its silver scale-like skin and the way it wiggles its body to move, it looks like...

Now that you mention it, it does look like a fish.

How filthy. What should I do?

It's all right. They're easily dealt with.

You need this and some kind of paper.

Yujiro-ojisan, use this.

Thank you.

Then you do this.

It smells good.

Smells like lavender.

Silverfish dislike the smell of herbs, especially lavender.

Simply place a lavender-scented piece of paper in the bookshelf,

and the silverfish will go away.

Wow!

How informative!

I should try that at home.

Well, we should get going.

Thank you for coming.

Sawada Ryosuke (35)

Welcome. Sit wherever you'd like.

How much are these books worth?

An appraisal? Let me see.

These are all rare books.

Excuse me.

Would they be worth 500,000?

Don't be absurd.

It depends on their condition,

but all together they'd be worth over 200,000 yen.

That bastard...

I can't accurately appraise them without seeing them in person.

If possible, please bring them here.

I'll be waiting.

What a truly relaxing space.

Tamaki Ichiro (35) Yujiro's Son

Yoshikawa Michiko (27) Ichiro's Girlfriend

Thank you for coming.

Would you like another coffee?

I suppose I would.

Is Yujiro-san not here today?

He's in the back.

He's currently checking and mending all the books he bought yesterday.

Hey, you came.

Are these books...?

Yeah, they're Mizutani-san's books.

You bought the rare books, too?

No. Apparently the husband asked that she not sell the rare books,

so I bought everything else.

Really?

Dad, someone named Mizutani-san is calling for you.

It's me.

What? Really?

No, nonsense.

I understand. I'll head there immediately.

Is something wrong?

The rare books were stolen.

What?!

But why did she call you?

It seems she believes I stole them.

Mizutani

Hand over the books you stole!

Calm down.

Start by telling me what happened when the books were stolen.

I went out for lunch with a friend today.

We finished eating around 1 PM.

I came home immediately and discovered

the window was broken and the books were missing.

You called the police, right?

Yes.

The police said it must've been a professional based on how the window was broken.

I was at the store all day today.

I couldn't have stolen from you.

That confirms Yujiro-san's alibi.

We can't be sure yet.

He could've gotten someone to steal them.

I wouldn't do that.

Those books were at our house for nearly twenty years.

But the moment you appraised them, they were stolen.

How do you explain that?

Well...

She really suspected him.

I know.

Hey, let's catch the real culprit.

Now, now. Let the police handle the investigation.

Huh?

What is it?

I can't find my phone.

It must be at the cafe.

Should we go back to get it?

Someone's probably still at the store.

Sorry. Could we do that?

I'm sorry, but the store is closed for—

You came to get some books appraised the other day.

I want to know their exact value.

Very well. Allow me to take a look.

These are truly good books.

They're in good condition.

You can get a good price for these.

Anyway, what a coincidence.

I just recently appraised the same book.

I wasn't expecting to appraise them two days in a row.

Oh, whoops.

Sir, where did you get these books?

What does it matter? Hurry up and appraise them.

You stole these from Mizutani-san's house, didn't you?

No!

I'm sorry, but I'll be calling the police.

What? These are my books!

You can tell that to the police.

W-Wait!

Stop!

Did something happen?

Let's check it out.

Is it a case?

Yujiro-ojisan.

Yujiro-san, are you hurt?

You kids again?

We came to the cafe next door to get something.

Then we saw the crowd.

This isn't my blood.

Then...

He's a suspect in this case.

What?!

What's going on?

I called the police.

She discovered the body.

I clearly saw him standing next to the body.

Inspector Megure, we've identified the man.

The victim was Sawada Ryosuke-san, thirty-five years old.

He lives nearby and is unemployed.

What's the cause of death?

A cerebral contusion caused by a blow to the head.

The weapon is almost certainly this bloody rock found at the crime scene.

Were there fingerprints on the weapon?

None. But...

What?

We found traces of hand cream on the weapon.