‘Can we prove this?’ Georgina asked him.
‘Davina destroyed all record of it, as you’d expect. Fortunately, she wasn’t the only one with a copy of the report. There aren’t many labs in our part of the world that offer equine sperm analysis. The second one I checked was able to confirm a test it conducted in July, 1993, for DTS Animal Care, Davina’s company. The horse wasn’t named, but the result was notable: a negative count.’
‘And that’s rare?’
‘Rare enough to make our case, ma’am.’
Georgina sighed. ‘I’m impressed – genuinely impressed.’
John Leaman said, ‘You speak for us all, ma’am. Don’t you think our guv’nor deserves some recognition?’
She frowned. There were limits. ‘What did you have in mind?’
‘An honour, ma’am. As a result of all this isn’t there a vacancy in the Lansdown Society?’
Peter Lovesey
