184 pages; soft cover; black & white; digest size

While playing hide and seek, first-grader Amy discovers a chopped off head. And when Richard Moore P.I. attends a reunion of his college friends, one of them ends up with a bullet hole to her temple and a gun in her hand. Later, Conan, Richard, and Rachel attend the birthday party where the daughter of a wealthy financier. But Conan's deductive skills are put to the test when the birthday girl ends up missing and a dead body turns up. Rating: T+