Detectives Victorianas - El hombre de los ojos feroces (That Man with the Wild Eyes) by George R Sims - Facts

 

The author of this story is George R Sims. George Robert Sims (2 September 1847 – 4 September 1922) was an English journalist, poet, dramatist, novelist and bon vivant.

He helped in some real cases. For example, he helped Adolph Beck, an emigrant who had been sent to prison mistakenly. The Adolf Beck case was a notorious incident of wrongful conviction by eyewitness misidentification, brought about by unreliable methods of identification, erroneous eyewitness testimony, and a rush to convict the accused. While Beck remained in prison, George Robert Sims,  who worked for the Daily Mail and had known Beck since his return to England in 1885, wrote an article in the paper emphasising that Beck had been tried on the assumption that he and Smith were the same person, yet no evidence to support that assumption had been allowed by Judge Fulton. Public opinion was slowly swayed by Sims and others, including Arthur Conan Doyle, to the view that Beck's conviction was unjust.

Sims wrote for the magazine 'Fun'. Fun was a Victorian weekly humorous magazine, first published on 21 September 1861 in competition with Punch.

In the book Dorcas lives in St John's Wood with her husband. St John's Wood is an affluent, leafy district in North London, located in the City of Westminster. 

Dorcas and Saxon use a fly to travel to Colonel Hargreaves's property. In the field of transport a fly is, by definition, a vehicle that moves quickly. Examples include a light horse-drawn public passenger vehicle or delivery wagon or a light, covered, vehicle hired from a livery stable.