The Pursuit of the House-Boat
LC Class PZ3.B224 Pu PS1064.B3[2] | | |
| Preceded by | A House-Boat on the Styx | |
|---|---|---|
| Followed by | The Enchanted Type-Writer | |
The Pursuit of the House-Boat is an 1897 novel by
Associated Shades
take on the afterlife.
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
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
- ^ a b Catalog record (New York: Harper, 1897). HathiTrust Digital Library (hathitrust.org). Retrieved 2016-08-04.
- ^ "The pursuit of the house-boat". LC Online Catalog. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2016-08-04.
Links include electronic copy at HDL. - HathiTrust Digital Library(HDL.handle.net). Retrieved 2016-09-02.
- Bleiler, Everett (1948). The Checklist of Fantastic Literature. Chicago: Shasta Publishers. p. 40.
External links
- The Pursuit of the House-Boat at Project Gutenberg
The Pursuit of the House-Boat public domain audiobook at LibriVox- Read the text of the book at http://www.classicreader.com/booktoc.php/sid.1/bookid.1226/
