Books with title Clockwork House

Mr Langridge, the notorious Cerlecombe architect and engineer, has been murdered in his summer mansion… or so their daughters think. After all, who would attempt to get inside Langridge Manor – a place that is obviously haunted, where rooms change places at random and where strange automatons and mechanical creatures are rife?Police refuse to look into the matter. Nobody dares to approach the murder scene, so no proper investigation has been carried out. Only Thomas Blackpole, representing the Lundenwich Society, a team of children who are mediums and detectives, will take the case.But things back in Lundenwich are not looking so good. The undertaker is on the verge of bankruptcy and the future of the orphans lies in Ligeia Leighton’s hands. Meanwhile, a dark force lurks in the basement of the funeral home – something old and powerful and much more dangerous than a ghost. The kind of thing you pray you won’t find under your bed at night or inside your wardrobe, scratching against the door.And whatever it is, it won’t be restrained for much longer.Bleak Clockwork House is the second instalment of The Lundenwich Society, a dark gaslamp fantasy saga full of wonder and adventure for fans of fast-paced mysteries and alternative Victorian history.

It is a cold winter's night when Karl enters the White Horse Tavern looking like he's swallowed a thundercloud. His final task as a clockmaker apprentice is to make a new figure for the great clock of Glockenheim. He has not made the figure – or got any idea of what it could be, and the unveiling is tomorrow. Fritz is also in the tavern; there to read aloud his new spooky story. Like Karl, he hasn't finished. Well, he knows how the story starts and he knows it's called Clockwork – so, with the snow swirling down outside, he sets his story going and just has to hope that the ending will come to him as he tells it. Suddenly, Fritz's story and real life merge in a completely sinister way – and just like clockwork it can't be stopped ...

The apprentice's friends think hearing the latest story by Fritz, the writer, will cheer poor Karl up. At least it will distract Karl from the fact that he hasn't produced a new moving figure for the great timepiece at the center of town, as he was supposed to. But to Fritz's horror the story he tells Karl begins to come true, and one of the main characters -- the evil Dr. Kalmenius -- shows up with a terrifying piece of clockwork. It's a knight called Sir Ironsoul. And when Karl decides to accept Dr. Kalmenius's offer and try to pass Sir Ironsoul off as his own work, the results are...well, deadly.

Join Alonzo, Mrs. Browne, Tommy and Gus in the third novel in the Clockwork Boy series. Alonzo is now established as a full-time inventor in his own workshop, Tommy has grown into a sharp young man devoted to managing all the details that Alonzo takes no interest in, and Mrs. Browne continues to guide her boys with her indomitable will and belief in what is fitting. A commission to renovate the dilapidated country house of Sir Gilbert, an old friend of Alice Merriweather, takes them all to rural Sussex to bring the manor into the twentieth century with Alonzo’s marvellous inventions, but things quickly begin to go wrong. Alonzo discovers that his old mate Gus is drinking again; strange accidents begin to plague the worksite. Sir Gilbert disdains the crippled Alonzo and is determined to drive a wedge between him and Alice. When a fortune teller predicts that Alice will ride off with a knight in shining armour, Gus and Alonzo fall out, and a tragic accident leaves Tommy on the brink of death, Alonzo is left alone—his worst fear. An eerie voice that comes to him in a dream counsels him to go back to go forward if he wants to find what he didn’t know he had lost. Finally, Alice and Gus’s young son disappear into the mysterious woods near the manor, and it is up to Alonzo to us use one of his inventions to find them… and to fight for them.