Editing Colonel March

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'''Colonel March''' is a fictional [[detective]] created by American writer [[John Dickson Carr]]. He appeared in a number of short stories written in the 1930s and 1940s of "impossible crime" mysteries.<ref>{{cite book|last=Joshi|first=S. T.|title=John Dickson Carr: A Critical Study|publisher=Popular Press|year=1990|pages=76–77|isbn=9780879724771}}</ref> He was an official attached to [[Scotland Yard]] in the so-called Department of Queer Complaints.

Carr based March on [[Cecil Street|Major John Street]], [[Military Cross|MC]], [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]]<ref>{{Cite book|last=Evans|first=Curtis|title=Masters of the "Humdrum" Mystery: Cecil John Charles Street, Freeman Wills Crofts, Alfred Walter Stewart and the British Detective Novel, 1920-1961|publisher=[[McFarland & Company]]|year=2012|page=90|isbn=978-0786470242}}</ref> with whom he had co-written the novel ''[[Drop to His Death]]''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Penzler (editor)|first=Otto|authorlink=Otto Penzler|title=The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked-Room Mysteries|publisher=[[Black Lizard (publisher)|Black Lizard]]|year=2014|page=101|isbn=978-0307743961}}</ref>

Colonel March was portrayed by [[Boris Karloff]] in the 1950s British TV series, ''[[Colonel March of Scotland Yard]]''.

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[[Category:Fictional British detectives]]
[[Category:Fictional British police detectives]]
[[Category:Novel series]]
[[Category:Characters in American novels]]
[[Category:Characters of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction]]
[[Category:John Dickson Carr characters]]


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