The Pursuit of the House-Boat

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.

The Pursuit of the House-Boat
Front cover of the first edition
AuthorJohn Kendrick Bangs
IllustratorPeter Newell[1]
SeriesAssociated Shades
GenreFantasy novel
PublisherHarper & Brothers
Publication date
1897
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pages204 pp
OCLC225196
LC ClassPZ3.B224 Pu PS1064.B3[2]
Preceded byA House-Boat on the Styx 
Followed byThe Enchanted Type-Writer 

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

  • Bleiler, Everett (1948). The Checklist of Fantastic Literature. Chicago: Shasta Publishers. p. 40.


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