Sims (1847–1922) GEORGE R. SIMS was a London journalist, novelist, and short-story writer, many of whose works sympathize with the conditions of London’s poor, though perhaps not quite as consistently as Arthur Morrison’s Tales of Mean Streets. The Devil in London (1908), for example, has Satan show up in Edwardian London and comment on all its social problems. Besides his detective stories, Sims is best remembered for editing three huge volumes entitled Living London (1902), containing elaborately illustrated essays about all aspects of that capital city at the turn of the century. The volumes were recently reprinted in England under the title Edwardian London. Beginning in 1889, most of Sims’s short-story collections contain detective or crime stories, but his most important work was a series of tales, published in two volumes, called Dorcas Dene, Detective: Her Adventures2 (1897–1898). Except for having probably the least euphonious name in mystery fiction, Dorcas Dene is one of the most interesting sleuths of the period.
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