Dope Girls : The Birth Of The British Drug Underground Paperback / softback
by Dr Marek Kohn
Paperback / softback
Description
This is a discussion of the transformation of drug use (especially morphine and cocaine, which was once commonly available in any chemist's shop) into a national menace.
It revolves around the death of Billie Carleton, a West End musical actress, in 1918.
Its cast of characters includes Brilliant Chang, a Chinese restaurant proprietor and Edgar Manning, a jazz drummer from Jamaica.
They were eventually identified as the villains of the affair and invested with a highly charged sexual menace.
Around them, in the streets off Shaftesbury Avenue, there swirled a raffish group of seedy and entitled hedonists.
Britain was horrified and fascinated, and so the drug problem was born amid a gush of exotic tabloid detail.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:208 pages, Illustrations
- Publisher:Granta Books
- Publication Date:01/11/2003
- Category:
- ISBN:9781862076181
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:208 pages, Illustrations
- Publisher:Granta Books
- Publication Date:01/11/2003
- Category:
- ISBN:9781862076181