Ford sighed at George's answer. "Yes, people generally are," he allowed dryly. He'd been hoping that perhaps George had been able to get a little farther than that, but it appeared not. Whatever the ghost said, though, that wasn't really what he wanted. That was just a symptom of his feeling very upset about something for a very long time, most likely. (There was a chance that he was a serial killer in life and that was, in fact, all he wanted, but Ford rather doubted it; he would have become a problem a lot earlier if that was the case).

What George suggested next was a better possibility, because it was something that at least could be resolved amicably, even if it was far outside of the Spirit Division's expertise. Ford would wager this ghost probably knew who had killed him already, but also that the responsible party was probably dead by now, so what where they meant to do about it? Sue the murderer's descendants? Still, it was possible that there could be some avenue for redress there — if that was actually what the spirit wanted. The way George had phrased it sounded as though perhaps he was speculating rather than speaking from experience.

"Did you ask him about his murder?" Ford prompted gently, hoping that George had more behind his suggestion than just a vague hunch. But if he'd gone to talk to the ghost already surely they must have covered something beyond the ghost saying he wanted all the members of the family dead and George saying stop saying that, please. Surely?