Synopsis

The news struck like a physical blow. Kitasono was dead. Two of his apprentices had visited him that day, and it was Higashio who first found the body. Nishiyama, the third apprentice, was delayed; he’d been at Lake Okuho, engrossed in a painting of Conan, Genta, Mitsuhiko, and Ayumi. Detective Takagi and the police began to piece together the events leading up to Kitasono's death, scrutinizing the alibis of Higashio, Nishiyama, Kitasono’s wife Kinuko, and their housekeeper Shizu. Conan and