After enrolling in a private preparatory school to improve his grades, Hajime becomes involved in a mystery surrounding a threatening letter and an apparant suicide that he believes is really a murder.

When Miyuki invites her friend, underachiever Hajime Kindaichi, to join her at the Drama Club's weekend rehearsal of 'Phantom of the Opera,' she does not expect the weekend to end in murder, nor for Kindaichi to investigate.

Underachiever Hajime Kindaichi must use his magician's skills to investigate reports of ghostly appearances and a series of threatening letters signed by the 'Afterschool Magician.'

When Hajime Kindaichi's parents, finding themselves short of cash, enter a treasure-hunting contest, things are more dangerous than they expected, especially if the mythical Mountain Goblin is really involved.

Kindaichi must catch an infamous thief who steals famous artworks and destroys or mutilates the object featured in the artwork, especially after he kills the father of one of Kindaichi's friends.

Kindaichi is summoned to examine a mysterious note declaring that the train bound for Shikotsu ga Hara in Hokkaido will be transformed into a “magic train of death.” When Kindaichi boards the train to investigate the threat, he meets members of the Illusionary Magic Troupe who perform magic on the train. Kindaichi is summoned to examine a mysterious note declaring that a train bound for Hokkaido will be transformed into a “magic train of death.” When Kindaichi boards the train to investigate the threat, he meets members of a magic troupe who perform on the train. But as the magicians go missing before they can complete their tricks, it’s up to Kindaichi to uncover the identity of “Hell’s Puppeteer”--who has announced that he has planted a bomb aboard the train. Is this the end of the line for Kindaichi?

Kindaichi and his friends go on a trip to an island, landing the detective in the middle of a grisly case whose scene is the deserted island doubles as a graveyard to thousands of Japanese soldiers who were killed during World War II.

The ghost of a decapitated samurai warrior terrorizes a provincial village, so young sleuth Hajime Kindaichi and his friend Miyuki Nanase head off to investigate.

Hajime Kindaichi and his girlfriend, Miyuki, must uncover who is murdering the cast members of a play, and all signs point to the actor playing Santa Claus.

While working as an intern on a reality program being produced by a local television station, underachiever Hajime Kindaichi investigates when the actress being put through a version of a local myth becomes the first crew member to die.