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
Author	John Kendrick Bangs
Illustrator	Peter Newell[1]
Series	Associated Shades
Genre	Fantasy novel
Publisher	Harper & Brothers
Publication date	1897
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardcover)
Pages	204 pp
OCLC	225196
LC Class	PZ3.B224 Pu PS1064.B3[2]
Preceded by	A House-Boat on the Styx
Followed by	The 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 with the illustrations by Peter Newell, 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.