 The main characters are Alex and Helen and, of course, the ghosts.There is also Helen's father, the ghost of a hand and a sinister trio.James Daly (mutineer)

Private James Joseph Daly (24 December 1899 – 2 November 1920)  was a member of a mutiny of the Connaught Rangers in India in 1920 in protest of the activities of the Black and Tans.