Colonel March Explained

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.^[1] He was an official attached to Scotland Yard in the so-called Department of Queer Complaints.

Carr based March on Major John Street, MC, OBE^[2] with whom he had co-written the novel Drop to His Death.^[3]

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

Notes and References

1. Book: Joshi, S. T.. John Dickson Carr: A Critical Study. Popular Press. 1990. 76–77. 9780879724771.
2. Book: Evans, Curtis. Masters of the "Humdrum" Mystery: Cecil John Charles Street, Freeman Wills Crofts, Alfred Walter Stewart and the British Detective Novel, 1920-1961. McFarland & Company. 2012. 90. 978-0786470242.
3. Book: Penzler (editor), Otto. Otto Penzler

   . Otto Penzler. The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked-Room Mysteries. Black Lizard. 2014. 101. 978-0307743961.