Isoamyl acetate
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 banana is about two hundred million times longer.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- Banana oil. Also pear oil, isopentyl acetate.
- Height
- 0.83 nm, stretched out.
- Weight
- 0.22 zeptograms
- Build
- A short zigzag with a fork at one end.
- Smell
- Banana, to Americans. Pear, to the British.
- Associates
- Honeybees. A sting gives it off, and it calls more bees in to sting.
- Known for
- Testing respirator masks. If the wearer smells bananas, the mask fails.
- First seen
- Sold here as banana flavor before most Americans had tasted a banana.
- Last seen
- A 5 mL tube marked BANANA in the fridge at HQ.
of them in a ripe banana, very roughly.
Bananas vary a lot. You’ve never seen one.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for Isoamyl acetate, No. 27. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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