The Pursuit of the Houseboat

Sherlock Holmes -- a fictional character -- was never alive, at least in the usual sense . Yet here he is to be found, engaging in sharp-witted conversation with the shades of various and sundry famous souls of our historic past -- and trying to prove that a certain cigar fragment does, indeed, belong to Captain Kidd -- that shady shade of Hades who has absconded with the Houseboat of the Associated Shades.