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.

Sherlock Holmes books :

• The Monster of St. Marylebone (©1999) {ISBN 0451198719}
• The Jewel of Covent Garden (©2000) {ISBN 0451201957}