The Pursuit of the House-Boat
Author | : John Kendrick Bangs |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 97 |
Release | : 2017-07-14 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781387101641 |
ISBN-10 | : 1387101641 |
Rating | : 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Pursuit of the House-Boat written by John Kendrick Bangs and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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. 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...