Carvone
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. A spearmint leaf is about eighty million times longer.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- L-carvone, or R-carvone.
- Height
- 0.83 nm, standing on its ponytail.
- Weight
- 0.25 zeptograms
- Marks
- Twists polarized light to the left. Its twin twists it right.
- Smell
- Spearmint. Its reflection smells of caraway.
- Known for
- Gum, toothpaste and mouthwash.
- Associates
- Its twin keeps stored potatoes from sprouting.
- Name
- After caraway, its twin’s plant. A sore point.
- Last seen
- A 5 mL tube marked SPEARMINT in the fridge at HQ.
of them in an ounce of fresh spearmint, give or take.
Plants vary. You’ve never seen one.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for Carvone, No. 22. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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