In the novel Hallowe'en Party, James Jenkins was a gardener at Quarry House, the residence of Mrs Llewellyn-Smythe in the village of Woodleigh Common.
Shortly before she died, Mrs Llewellyn-Smyth had called Jenkins and Mrs Leaman, a daily cleaning woman, to her room and asked them to witness a codicil to her will.
James subsequently left England and went to Australia.