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1/5 Loyal Books Country United States Publication date 1897 Pages 204 pp Followed by The Enchanted Type-Writer Publisher Harper | 3.3/5 Goodreads Illustrator Peter Newell Series Associated Shades Media type Print (hardcover) Originally published 1897 Preceded by A House-Boat on the Styx Genre Fantasy Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The pursuit of the house boat by john kendrick bangs 1862 1922 fantastic fiction audiobooks
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.
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- The pursuit of the house boat by john kendrick bangs 1862 1922 fantastic fiction audiobooks
- Plot summary
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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. 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.
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.