Volume 16 opens with a run of killings by the White Murderer, who traps Conan and the gang inside a snowbound mountain lodge. A blizzard-sealed room, a truth delivered over the phone, bonds consumed by fire — cases that seem unrelated are slowly drawn together into a single thread of motive. From an eerie school rumor to a scheme cooked up by rival potters, Gosho Aoyama layers precise tricks over real human drama. Even trapped in a child's body, Shinichi's mind stays razor sharp as he uncovers each painful truth.
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In the snow-lodge case, the killer is the very person posing as a victim, using the isolated terrain to pick off the guests one by one. Conan reads the disturbed footprints and a doctored voice on the phone to expose the switch, then locates the murder weapon buried in the snow. The bond-of-fire case turns out to be revenge by someone who lost family in an old blaze, with the charred evidence telling the whole story. In the potters' scheme, a mismatch between kiln temperature and firing time shatters the fabricated alibi, and Conan closes the case by tranquilizing Kogoro and voicing the solution through him.
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| Author | 青山剛昌 |
|---|---|
| Publisher | 小学館 |
| Release date | 1997-08-09 |
| Volume | Vol. 16 |
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