There she meets Giuseppe, and the two look for the treasure but it is not there, though she receives some herbal medicine from a woman who lives in the park. She runs to look for it when she desperately needs money for her sick father's medicine. She later sees a map that hints it may be near a pond in the park. Hannah discovers that a man named Mister Stroop supposedly left the treasure in the suites at the top of the hotel. He goes back to Master Branch's shop, where Frederick is an apprentice, and once he decides that Master Branch is asleep, he goes to the basement of the shop to work on his clockwork man. While he sneaks out, he lies about his father being one of the workers at the mine. Later, he finds a coal chute, perfect for the chest plate, and sneaks it out of a coal yard. He also bumps into Giuseppe, but Giuseppe runs along with his violin. Treeless, the woman in charge of an orphanage.įrederick had been in before becoming apprenticed to Master Branch, which reminds him of the awful memories he had at the orphanage. While wandering the streets, Frederick catches a glimpse of Mrs.

Frederick is going around in search of a chest plate for his clockwork man. For once, Giuseppe has hope in getting back to his family. He gets an idea to use his green violin to buy a boat ticket back to Italy, where he had been taken from. He finds that it gives a very beautiful sound, and he is thrown money from people everywhere in the streets. One day, Giuseppe finds a green violin floating in the harbor and he tries it out. Joseph had been kidnapped from Italy and had to play a fiddle in English streets to earn money for his master, until he eventually escaped. The idea for The Clockwork Three came to Kirby when he read a story of a boy named Joseph in a newspaper from 1873. Set in a fictional coastal city in the late nineteenth century, it follows three children: Giuseppe, Hannah, and Frederick who work to solve each other's problems. The Clockwork Three is a 2010 novel by American author Matthew J.

The clockwork three by matthew j kirby