In the novel Taken at the Flood, Jimmy Pierce is a resident of Warmsley Vale and a frequent visitor of the Load of Hay inn. It is said that he "gets quarrelsome after a glass or two".
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On the night Enoch Arden was murdered, just after ten o'clock, Jimmy went out of the inn and saw a "tart from London" in an orange scarf and a tweed coat emerge from the Stag and go into the telephone box. His testimony ties in with that of Mrs Leadbetter.
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