Piperine
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 0.1 nm. A peppercorn is about three million times wider.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- Piperine, after the pepper plant itself.
- Height
- 1.5 nm, standing on end.
- Weight
- 0.47 zeptograms
- Build
- Long and nearly flat: a double ring at one end, a single ring at the other, a zigzag between.
- Habits
- Trips the same heat sensor as chili peppers. No relation.
- Weakness
- Light. It twists into tasteless look-alikes.
- First seen
- By the physicist who found that electric currents swing compass needles.
- Last seen
- A 5 mL tube marked PEPPER in the fridge at HQ.
of them in a teaspoon of ground black pepper, on average.
Peppers vary. You’ve never seen one.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for Piperine, No. 29. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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