Death of an Investigator

by Monica Moss

A few years after we started working with Oliver Davis, SPR encountered a dead thief very aware of the world around him with an agenda he would not leave unfinished. Our investigation of his case was just part of a larger, much more dangerous mystery than even Naru had ever encountered. Why did anyone have to die? Don't need to know Detective Conan.

1. Prologue

Prologue

Right Now

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I love my job, but sometimes our cases end in tragedy. Right now, I am attending a funeral for a brilliant but arrogant investigator whose cause of death the authorities will never be able to determine.

I sit in the back row with the rest of SPR, letting the parents who had flown in from out of the country sit up front. I see a fellow investigator that the deceased had spent years of his life working with also sitting close to the front. I see that the middle is filled with grateful members of the Japanese police force, as well as by several foreigners that the dead man had been professionally involved with.

I would not have seen something like this coming thirteen days ago...