Case Closed, Volume 39, Paperback/Gosho Aoyama

The mystery series that inspired the hit anime Reads R to L (Japanese Style), for audiences T+ The Adventure of the Scarlet Blaze While wrapping up a kidnapping case, Conan and Harley find themselves on the trail of another criminal: a serial arsonist who leaves a model of a red horse at the scene of each fire. The police and fire departments are stumped, but to Conan, the case feels eerily familiar. Can he jog his memory before the arsonist claims another victim? And what will he and Harley do when Rachel and Kazuha receive the fatal red horse? About the Author: 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.