"The Feathered Serpent” is a novel by an outstanding British writer and playwright Edgar Wallace (1875–1932). A Young venturer Crewe and his girl-friend and actress Ella Creed are receiving strange visiting cards, on which a feathered snake is drawn and a warning written. After this a string of robberies happens. Wallace Edgar is a popular author of detectives, a prosaist, screenwriter, founder of the "thriller” genre. Edgar Wallace Richard Horatio is the author of many writings: "The Traitor''s Gate”, "The Forger”, "The Brigand”, "The Dusseldorf Hoax”, "The Clue of the New Pin”, "The Green Archer”, " The Face in the Night”, "The Three Oak Mystery”, "The Avenger”, "The Joker” and others.