The Adventure of the Speckled Band a pipe. Even Conan Doyle's bow was upstaged when Lyn Harding appeared at curtain call with the snake draped around his neck. "The Speckled Band" ran for 169 performances at the Adelphi Theatre before transferring to the Globe on 28 August. The play enjoyed a successful tour in England, with two touring-companies on the road by the end of August, while the New York presentation was marred by clumsy production. Conan Doyle's financial difficulties were at an end, yet there were still problems to be resolved with the production. While the human cast was excellent, the live snake proved to
The Fat of the Land (short story) the US magazine "This Week" on 2 November 1958, with illustrations by James Williamson. This story was included as the fourth story in the first American edition of the collection "A Few Quick Ones", and the first story featured in the English edition of that collection. "The Fat of the Land" was also included in the 1982 short story collection, "Tales from the Drones Club". The Fat of the Land (short story) "The Fat of the Land" is a short story by British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse. The story is part of the Drones Club canon. First published in