He graduated from the University of New Hampshire and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and worked as a reporter and magazine writer.
[1][2] He is the author of a series of Sherlock Holmes novels.
Worcester was a news reporter for the Providence Journal in Providence, Rhode Island for over a decade before he joined the faculty at the University of Connecticut as a journalism professor in 1987.
[3] He reported on the theft of more than $30 million worth of valuables from safe deposit boxes in 1975; most of the valuables belonged to the Patriarca crime family.
Worcester has been diagnosed with narcolepsy and has been featured in national media coverage of the illness, including NBC News.