Vanillin
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
- Vanilla, mostly. Rarely corrects anyone.
- Height
- 0.68 nm, standing on end.
- Weight
- 0.25 zeptograms
- Habits
- Hides in green vanilla pods wearing a sugar. Curing takes it off.
- Marks
- Grows white needles on the very best vanilla beans.
- Origins
- A Mexican orchid. Each flower opens for one day and is pollinated by hand.
- Associates
- Petrochemicals, mostly. Under 1% of it comes from vanilla beans.
- Last seen
- A 5 mL tube marked VANILLA in the fridge at HQ.
of them in a teaspoon of pure vanilla extract, give or take.
You’ve never seen one.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for Vanillin, No. 16. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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