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Wayne Worcester

Wayne Worcester is an American journalist and author. He grew up in New Hampshire and graduated from the University of New Hampshire[?] and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. After working as a reporter and magazine writer, in 1987 he became a journalism professor at the University of Connecticut at Storrs. He is the author of a series of Sherlock Holmes novels.

The diction in those books is often poor -- such words as "compatriot", "pocketed", and "caldron" are used awkwardly, for example -- but the overblown language fits modern notions of what Victorian writing was like and, thus, furthers the conceit that the books were written by Dr. Watson and only recently discovered.

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