Pursuit of the House-Boat
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 The 1897 cover of The Pursuit of the House-Boat |
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| Author | John Kendrick Bangs |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Associated Shades |
| Genre(s) | Fantasy novel |
| Publisher | Harper & Brothers |
| Released | 1897 |
| 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.
[edit] Plot summary
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
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.
[edit] References
- Bleiler, Everett (1948). The Checklist of Fantastic Literature. Chicago: Shasta Publishers, 40.
[edit] External links
- The Pursuit of the House-Boat, available at Project Gutenberg.
- Read the text of the book at http://www.classicreader.com/booktoc.php/sid.1/bookid.1226/
| Associated Shades Novels by John Kendrick Bangs |
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| A House-Boat on the Styx | Pursuit of the House-Boat | The Enchanted Type-Writer | Mr. Munchausen… |
