Dope Girls

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36358757943
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Books
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9.99
book_author_name: 
Marek Kohn
book_type: 
Paperback
publisher: 
Granta Books
published_date: 
01/11/2003
isbn: 
9781862076181
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Books > History > Historical events & topics > Social & cultural history
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Marek Kohn|Paperback|Granta Books|01/11/2003
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9781862076181
Book 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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