Cuminaldehyde
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 nanometer is about how far a fingernail grows in a second.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- Cuminal, to friends. Cumic aldehyde, to others.
- Height
- 0.81 nm, standing on end.
- Weight
- 0.25 zeptograms
- Build
- Benzaldehyde, the bitter-almond smell, with an isopropyl group bolted on.
- Habits
- Up to half of cumin’s essential oil. The rest is accomplices.
- Associates
- Carrots, fennel, caraway and coriander. Same family as cumin.
- Last seen
- A 5 mL tube marked CUMIN in the fridge at HQ.
of them in a teaspoon of cumin, give or take.
Jars vary. You’ve never seen one.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for Cuminaldehyde, No. 86. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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