The_Pursuit_of_the_House-Boat

<i>The Pursuit of the House-Boat</i>

The Pursuit of the House-Boat

1897 novel by John Kendrick Bangs

The Pursuit of the House-Boat is an 1897 novel by John Kendrick Bangs, and the second one to feature his Associated Shades take on the afterlife.

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The original full title was The Pursuit of the House-Boat: Being Some Further Account of the Divers Doings of the Associated Shades, Under the Leadership of Sherlock Holmes, Esq.[1] and it has also been titled In Pursuit of the House-Boat and Pursuit of the House-Boat.

There are 12 chapters in the book. They were first published as a serial, under the full-title and including the Newell illustrations, in Harper's Weekly from February 6 to April 24, 1897.[3]

Plot summary

After the Houseboat was hijacked by Captain Kidd at the end of A House-Boat on the Styx, the various members of its club decided that in order to track it down, a detective would have to be called in. So, they hired Sherlock Holmes, who, at the time of the book's publication, had indeed been declared dead by his creator.

References

  1. [1]
    Catalog record (New York: Harper, 1897). HathiTrust Digital Library (hathitrust.org). Retrieved 2016-08-04.
  2. [2]
    "The pursuit of the house-boat". LC Online Catalog. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2016-08-04.
      Links include electronic copy at HDL.
  3. [3]
    "The Pursuit of the House-Boat". Harper's Weekly, vol. 41 part 1 (Jan-Jun 1897), pp. 136–37 and passim.
      Page 136 (February 6, 1897), from original at Pennsylvania State University, at HathiTrust Digital Library (HDL.handle.net). Retrieved 2016-09-02.
  • Bleiler, Everett (1948). The Checklist of Fantastic Literature. Chicago: Shasta Publishers. p. 40.


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