''The Pursuit of the House-Boat'' is an 1897 novel by

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, 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.''Catalog record (New York: Harper, 1897)
HathiTrust Digital Library (hathitrust.org). Retrieved 2016-08-04. 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 ''

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'' from February 6 to April 24, 1897."The Pursuit of the House-Boat". ''Harper's Weekly'', vol. 41 part 1 (Jan-Jun 1897), pp. 136–37 and passim.

Page 136 (February 6, 1897)
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Plot summary

After the House-Boat was hijacked by

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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.

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