For today's theory of relateeveety, we cross the Atlantic to meet the March brothers.....
'Colonel March of Scotland Yard'
From the IMDb:
Colonel March of The Department of Queer Complaints investigates unusual cases, locked-room murders, and mysteries concerning the supernatural.
From Wikipedia:
Colonel March of Scotland Yard is a 1950s British television series based on author John Dickson Carr's (aka Carter Dickson) fictional detective Colonel March from his book "The Department of Queer Complaints" (1940). Carr was a mystery author who specialized in locked-room whodunnits and other 'impossible' crimes: murder mysteries that seemed to defy possibility. The stories of the television series followed in the same vein with Detective March solving cases that baffle Scotland Yard and the British police. The department itself is sometimes referred to as "D3". Boris Karloff starred as Colonel March.
Colonel March was born in 1887 and lived to be 81 years old, dying in 1969. I am not sure his first name was ever revealed.
Unlike his brother George, Colonel March was never married, except to his job.
'The Saint'
"The Gentle Ladies" (1963)
From the IMDb:
They are three charming ladies - not so young but not too old. What is the secret they dread the world will discover when a blackmailer descends on them?
In a quiet English village the Saint meets the elderly Warshed sisters who are pillars of the community. Nonetheless they are harboring a dark secret from their past which is exposing them to being blackmailed by one Alfred Powls. When the Saint discovers this he resolves to assist the three gentle ladies and find out the reason for the blackmail.
George March was the lawyer for the Warshed sisters and he had a long-standing love for Florence Warshed. In return for his help in covering up how Powls actually died and who the sisters really were, he asked Florence to marry him. She gladly accepted the proposal, even if it did seem like it was another form of blackmail.
George was the younger brother, born in 1902. He and Florence had over a decade together before he passed away in 1977.
It's doubtful that George ever knew exactly what kind of work his older brother did for the government.
BCnU!
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