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Dope Girls
- Author
- Marek Kohn
- Narrator
- Jaimi Barbakoff
- Publisher
- W. F. Howes Ltd.
- Publish Date
- 21 November 2024
- Run Time
- 7 hours 48 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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A fascinating look at cocaine and opium use in Britain after the First World War - Sarah Waters, Sunday Times
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- Author
- Marek Kohn
- Narrator
- Jaimi Barbakoff
- Duration
- 7 hours 48 minutes
- Release Date
- 21 November 2024
- ISBN
- 9781004181193
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- W. F. Howes Ltd.
- Genre
- European history, Social and cultural history, Popular culture
Synopsis
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.A fascinating look at cocaine and opium use in Britain after the First World War - Sarah Waters, Sunday Times
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