Colonel March is a fictional

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created by American writer

John Dickson Carr John Dickson Carr (November 30, 1906 – February 27, 1977) was an American author of detective stories, who also published using the pseudonyms Carter Dickson, Carr Dickson, and Roger Fairbairn. He lived in England for a number of years, and ...

. He appeared in a number of short stories written in the 1930s and 1940s of "impossible crime" mysteries. He was an official attached to

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in the so-called Department of Queer Complaints. Carr based March on Major John Street, MC,

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with whom he had co-written the novel '' Drop to His Death''. Colonel March was portrayed by

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in the 1950s British TV series, ''

Colonel March of Scotland Yard ''Colonel March of Scotland Yard'' is a British television series consisting of a single series of 26 episodes first broadcast in the United States from December 1954 to Spring of 1955. The series premiered on British television on 24 September ...

''.

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