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Proven wrong, Conan Doyle sent Harding a letter of congratulations. The play was an immediate success and Harding's performance was adored by critics. Harding's interpretation carried the day with Barrie saying "Let Harding have his own way." Production

Barrie was invited to view the rehearsals and provide an opinion as he was friends with both Harding and Conan Doyle. Harding desired for Rylott to be more central to the story whereas Conan Doyle wanted less of his presence. Over the course of many rehearsals, Harding slowly transformed the character into a more idiosyncratic character which infuriated Conan Doyle. Rylott and also direct the play, a decision Conan Doyle quickly came to regret. Saintsbury had toured the Gillette play and was on the verge of his 1,000th performance in the role. Casting Ĭonan Doyle hired an actor with a great deal of experience as Sherlock Holmes H. It was a considerable success." Ĭonan Doyle made some alterations to the names of his characters, with Roylott becoming Rylott, and Julia Stoner becoming Violet Stoner. I do not think I exaggerate if I say that within a fortnight of the one play shutting down I had a company working upon the rehearsals of a second one, which had been written in the interval. I wrote it in a week and called it The Speckled Band after the short story of that name. "I shut myself up and devoted my whole mind to making a sensational Sherlock Holmes drama. Keeping in mind that William Gillette had achieved great success with his play Sherlock Holmes, which was based on an earlier Conan Doyle script, Conan Doyle wrote his own Sherlock Holmes play in a week. To recoup his loses and do something with an empty theatre he had leased, Conan Doyle decided to stage a new play. While the play was initially a success, the death of King Edward VII caused West End theatres to close for a month in mourning The closing spelled the demise of the play.

In 1909, Conan Doyle had leased the Adelphi Theatre at his own expense for a production of a boxing drama entitled The House of Temperley which was an adaptation of his novel Rodney Stone. The Speckled Band is a 1910 play in three acts by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, based on his own 1892 short story " The Adventure of the Speckled Band".