The books by the French author Maurice Leblanc about the escapades of Arsène Lupin were published in enormous print runs even during the author’s lifetime, often exceeding the print runs of works by Conan Doyle himself. "The Hollow Needle" continues the cycle of novels about Arsène Lupin—the elusive thief whose audacious deeds never leave the pages of newspapers: the mysterious gentleman with inexhaustible imagination, operating mainly in castles and in fashionable drawing rooms. Lupin is a master of disguise, a man of a thousand masks.
The edition is enhanced with illustrations by French artists taken from the first original publications.