Colonel March is a fictional detective created by John Dickson Carr. He appeared in a number of short stories written in the 30s and 40s about "locked-room" and "impossible crime" mysteries. He was an official attached to Scotland Yard in the so-called Department of Queer Complaints.
He was played by Boris Karloff in the 1950s British TV series, Colonel March of Scotland Yard.
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“The march interrupted the light afternoon.
Cars stopped dead, children began to run,
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—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
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