Methyl anthranilate
File sealed
The detectives are still writing this one up. The poster and the facts are below; the film and the interrogation room open soon.
Booking photographs
The suspect, from its real atomic coordinates. Drag to turn it. Height chart in nanometers, ruled every 0.05 nm. About 100,000 of them end to end would span the width of a human hair.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- MA, or methyl 2-aminobenzoate.
- Height
- 0.78 nm, standing on end.
- Weight
- 0.25 zeptograms
- Build
- Flat: one ring, two hangers-on. Side on, a sliver.
- Smell
- Grape. Grape soda and grape candy borrow it.
- Color
- None. Glows blue-violet under UV light.
- Origins
- The Concord grape, bred in Concord, Massachusetts.
- Known for
- The “foxy” note wine drinkers hold against Concord wine.
- Last seen
- A 5 mL tube marked GRAPE in the fridge at HQ.
of them in an 8 oz glass of Concord grape juice, give or take.
Grapes vary. You’ve never seen one.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for Methyl anthranilate, No. 12. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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