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by Marek Kohn (Author) "Drugs have lost their history ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Granta Books; New Ed edition (22 Mar 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1862074062
  • ISBN-13: 978-1862074064
  • Product Dimensions: 21 x 13.3 x 1.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  (1 customer review)
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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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