A Thoroughly Inconvenient Pedigree: Thoroughly Inconvenient Deaths
When the judge of Best in Show dies in the ring at the Hartwell Stoke Agricultural and Canine Show, the first question is whether his heart simply gave out. Conrad Veitch has been judging for forty years. These things happen.
Beatrice Chalk, who has been attending the show for most of those forty years, is not satisfied with these things happen as an answer.
The show world is a small one, the same faces, the same dogs, the same grievances carried from circuit to circuit across decades. There are people here who had reasons to wish Conrad Veitch ill. There are records that don't match. There are complaints that were made and then, quietly, were not.
And there are two springer spaniels, belonging to a woman no one can quite place, being looked after in a stranger's garden in the next village.
As Beatrice works through the tangle of breed politics, old loyalties, and show-ring rivalries, she finds herself tracing a thread that leads not forward to the present but backward, twenty-seven years backward, to a night at a different show, a boy who died, and a letter that should have changed everything and didn't.
Some records are wrong. Some silences are chosen. And some people wait a very long time to be heard.
A Thoroughly Inconvenient Pedigree is the eighth book in the Thoroughly Inconvenient Deaths series, featuring Beatrice Chalk of Hartwell Stoke.
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