Cinnamaldehyde
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 cinnamon stick is about ninety million times longer.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- Cinnamal. Also cinnamic aldehyde.
- Height
- 0.86 nm, standing on end.
- Weight
- 0.22 zeptograms
- Build
- Flat. A ring with a short, straight tail.
- Color / Smell
- Yellow and oily. Smells exactly like cinnamon.
- Habits
- Trips the same nerve alarm as mustard oil and wasabi.
- Origins
- Tree bark. A cinnamon stick is a curled strip of it.
- Associates
- Ginger, nutmeg and cloves. No pumpkin involved.
- Last seen
- A 5 mL tube marked CINN in the fridge at HQ.
of them in a teaspoon of ground cinnamon, give or take.
Jars vary. You’ve never seen one.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for Cinnamaldehyde, No. 20. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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