# Dalbrèque — The Eight Strokes of the Clock character guide

> Dalbrèque in The Eight Strokes of the Clock by Maurice Leblanc.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Georges, Georges Dalbrèque

**First appearance:** 0002-i-on-the-top-of-the-tower

## Snapshot

A cinema actor turned car thief and suspected murderer, whose trail of stolen vehicles and abducted women pulls Rénine and Hortense into a chase across Normandy.

## Who they are

Dalbrèque is wanted for robbing a film company's garage and for a jeweller's murder the year before, and now a woman has vanished from Le Havre in his company. What makes him unsettling is the theatrical logic of his crimes: he seems to be reenacting a role he once played on screen, near the very forest where it was filmed. His flight becomes the thread that leads the investigators toward Rose Andrée and the truth behind the abduction.

## In the story

### [IV: The Telltale Film](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_eight_strokes_of_the_clock_se/chapters/iv-the-telltale-film)

Rose's lover, wanted for killing a jeweler and stealing a car, works as a woodcutter, is wounded and captured, then hidden by Rénine in the car.

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