An exciting and entertaining listen for fans of detective fiction, The Hollow Needle features the popular character Arsène Lupin, gentleman-burglar and master of disguise.
Intrigued by a legend concerning a hollow needle that supposedly holds a secret connected to the French monarchy – a secret that could potentially change the course of history – Lupin embarks on a quest to find the needle and unravel its mystery.
Adventure, mystery and suspense combine in a thrilling narrative that sees Lupin pull out all the stops as he outwits his adversaries and deploys all his cunning in order to solve the needle’s secret.
David Timson has made over 1,000 broadcasts for BBC Radio Drama. For Naxos AudioBooks he has written The History of Theatre, an award-winning production read by Derek Jacobi, and directed four Shakespeare plays including King Richard III (with Kenneth Branagh). He has also read the entire Sherlock Holmes canon and Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.