Pursuit of the House-Boat
- Pursuit of the House-Boat
Infobox Book |
name = The Pursuit of the House-Boat
title_orig =
translator =
image_caption = The 1897 cover of "The Pursuit of the House-Boat"
author = John Kendrick Bangs
illustrator =
cover_artist =
country = United States
language = English
series = Associated Shades
genre = Fantasy novel
publisher = Harper & Brothers
release_date = 1897
english_release_date =
media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = 204 pp
isbn = NA
preceded_by = A House-Boat on the Styx
followed_by = The Enchanted Type-Writer
"Pursuit of the House-Boat" (sometimes called "In Pursuit of the House-Boat" or "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 Hell.
Plot summary
After the House-Boat was 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
*cite book | last=Bleiler | first=Everett | authorlink=Everett F. Bleiler | title=The Checklist of Fantastic Literature | location=Chicago | publisher=Shasta Publishers | pages=40 | date=1948
External links
*gutenberg|no=3169|name=The Pursuit of the House-Boat
*Read the text of the book at http://www.classicreader.com/booktoc.php/sid.1/bookid.1226/
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