Nile Green is a 1943 mystery detective novel by the British writer Anne Hocking.

[1] [2] Written during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, it is the fifth in her long-running series featuring Chief Superintendent William Austen of Scotland Yard.

It was published in the United States by Doubleday under the alternative title Death Loves a Shining Mark.

[3] In wartime Cairo working for military intelligence, Austen investigates a case amongst the wealthy British inhabitants of the city.

A married woman who had been having an affair, has been murdered during an air raid.