 He worked as a journalist in Lincolnshire and the characters in his books are said to be highly recognisable caricatures of people he encountered in his work.His 1971 study of interwar thrillers 'Snobbery With Violence', made the phrase popular for describing such authors as Dornford Yates.Watson was the first person to successfully sue" Private Eye" for libel, for an article in issue 25 when he objected to being described as