Literary Reference
Thomas is mentioned in Have His Carcase, a 1932 detective novel by Dorothy L. Sayers. Thomas' custom of wearing a dress suit is cited as an apparent certainty which could fail, unlike the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which appears to govern the case in a metaphorical way.
In the 1975 BBC television production of Sayers' 1931 novel Five Red Herrings, Thomas is mentioned in a snatch of background dialogue. A Scottish railway porter bursts out in an angry tirade: "You call this a Socialist Government? Things are harder than ever for a working man, and as for Jimmy Thomas, he has sold himself, lock, stock and barrel, to the capitalists!"
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