Dope Girls : The Birth of the British Drug Underground Paperback
by Marek Kohn
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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 Bille 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 identified as the villains of the affair and invested with a highly charged sexual menace.
Around them in the streets off Shaftesbury Avenue and in Chinatown there swirled a raffish group of seedy and rebellious hedonists.
Britain was horrified and fascinated. The drug problem was born, amid a gush of exotic tabloid detail.
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- Format:Paperback
- Pages:208 pages, facsimiles, , portraits
- Publisher:Granta Books
- Publication Date:22/03/2001
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- ISBN:9781862074064
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- Format:Paperback
- Pages:208 pages, facsimiles, , portraits
- Publisher:Granta Books
- Publication Date:22/03/2001
- Category:
- ISBN:9781862074064