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Dope Girls : The Birth Of The British Drug Underground, Paperback / softback Book

Dope Girls : The Birth Of The British Drug Underground Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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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 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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