‘I was never so amazed in my life as when the Sniffer drew his concealed weapon from its case and struck me to the ground, stone dead.’ So begins the story of Connor ‘Gil’ Gilmartin when he catches his wife in flagrante with the Sniffer, his former colleague and now his murderer. Unfortunately, death is only the first indignity Gil is about to suffer. For he lingers on as a ghost, and from this bleak vantage.