“The Green Shooter” is a novel by the outstanding British writer and playwright Edgar Wallace (1875–1932). A mysterious man under the pseudonym Green Shooter pursues the widow Elaina Held in order to obtain consent to marry him. To do this, he does not even hesitate to kidnap her children. Edgar Wallace is a popular detective author, novelist, screenwriter, and founder of the thriller genre. Edgar Wallace Richard Horatio is the author of many works: “A Face in the Dark,” “At Three Oaks,” “The Avenger” ", "The Joker", "The Feathered Snake", "The Gate of Treason", "The Counterfeiter", "Bandit", "The Dusseldorf Murderer", "The Mystery of the Pin" and others.