An artist is dead, and though it seems like an accident, detective Conan Atagawa isn’t so sure.   Still a high school student, teenage supersleuth Jimmy Kudo is already one of the most respected detectives around, and his crime-solving skills often come in handy with the local police force. But when Jimmy's detective work intrudes upon the illegal activities of a sinister crime syndicate, its members poison the teen with a drug that shrinks him to the size of a seven-year-old child! Adopting the alias Conan (in honor Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle), the pint-sized Jimmy continues to solve baffling cases — as well as search for an antidote to his condition -- with the help of a pair of bumbling police detectives, a kindly scientist neighbor and a close-knit group of friends.