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]
CountryUnited States
SeriesAssociated Shades
GenreFantasy novel
PublisherHarper & Brothers
Publication date
1897
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 House-Boat 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.

gollark: Ah, but if we move the UK there, people can *work* in Switzerland and *shop* in the UK!
gollark: Well, I guess we'd better move the UK to Switzerland.
gollark: Meanwhile, I don't know what the UK's mean or median wages are.
gollark: Er, no it is.
gollark: Your mental age is 2.

References
  1. Catalog record (New York: Harper, 1897). HathiTrust Digital Library (hathitrust.org). Retrieved 2016-08-04.
  2. "The pursuit of the house-boat". LC Online Catalog. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2016-08-04.
      Links include electronic copy at HDL.
  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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