Hisashi Nozawa
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Hisashi Nozawa (野沢 尚 Nozawa Hisashi?, 7 May 1960 - 28 June 2004) was a famous Japanese screenwriter and mystery novelist. He was found dead in his office in Tokyo's Meguro ward after he had apparently hanged himself several days earlier. A note was also found at the scene. He won the Edogawa Ranpo Prize in 1997 for Hasen no marisu (Dotted-line Malice) and the Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for New Writers in 2001 for Shinku (Crimson).
South Korean TV Network SBS broadcast a 16 Episode Drama Alone in Love adapted from one of his novels in 2006.
He also wrote Detective Conan - The Phantom of Baker Street.