# Madame Hélène Omber — The Lone Wolf character guide

> Madame Hélène Omber in The Lone Wolf by Louis Joseph Vance.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Madame Omber, Madame

**First appearance:** 0000-i-troyon-s

## Snapshot

A cool, influential mistress of a treasure-filled hôtel whose distant courtesy conceals ties to the underworld and a fortune the Lone Wolf has already stolen.

## Who they are

Madame Omber presides over her historic library with the composure of a woman accustomed to both wealth and danger, receiving the commissaire's intrusion as a minor inconvenience. Her jewels are the very plunder Ekstrom refused, linking her silently to the Pack and to the pressures closing around Lanyard. When she declines to intervene on his behalf, she becomes a study in ambiguous allegiance — neither ally nor open enemy, but a power whose motives the adventurer cannot read.

## In the story

### [VII: L'Abbaye](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lone_wolf_se/chapters/vii-l-abbaye)

The owner of the jewellery Lanyard attempts to sell; her name is mentioned in the transaction.

### [XVI: Restitution](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lone_wolf_se/chapters/xvi-restitution)

Owner of the mansion and the collection; mentioned as being without kith or kin, with her treasures destined for the Louvre.

### [War](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lone_wolf_se/chapters/xx-war)

Her mansion is scouted by Lanyard, but appears unoccupied.

### [Madame Omber](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lone_wolf_se/chapters/xxiii-madame-omber)

Returns home, discovers Lanyard, interrogates him with a revolver, and learns he stole and returned her jewels.

### [XXIV: Rendezvous](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lone_wolf_se/chapters/xxiv-rendezvous)

Present during the raid; initially confused, she hesitates to aid Lanyard.

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