Corinne Holt Sawyer (born March 4, 1924) is an American scholar who was the author of a popular mystery series and other works.

While in residence there, she taught at the University of Maryland Overseas, leading college-level classes in speech and in English to United States Air Force (USAF) personnel in Scotland and England.

In 1966, she moved to South Carolina, where she taught English and popular culture at Clemson University, attaining the rank of full professor before retiring in 1988.

Sawyer is the author of the Angela Benbow and Caledonia Wingate mystery series, which follow a tradition of elderly women as amateur detectives.

[8] Angela and Caledonia are septuagenarians living in the upscale retirement community of Camden-sur-Mer, a posh complex for senior citizens near San Diego.

Her overt challenges to ageist attitudes are facilitated by her choice of genre and the fact that popular fiction is relatively elastic in it absorption of ideological trends.

[John] Cawelti, in Adventure, Mystery, and Romance: Formula Stories as Art and Popular Culture,[26] persuasively argues this dynamic...The reader realizes that the resources of a modern police force undercut the omnipotence of the amateur, or as [Sally] Munt puts it: "Forensic science has put paid to intuitive leaps of deduction––genetic finger-printing is far more reliable.

The articles draw from the geographical diversity of the characters in the series, the Kilroy was Here meme from Season 4 (Episode 6--The Bus, airing 17 October 1975), and the cross-dressing of Corporal Maxwell Klinger.

[35] The hotel served such notables as Greta Garbo, Victor McLaglan and the Barrymore family, and their rooms were in great demand by the military during World War II.