Dope (novel)

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Dope is a 1919 novel by Sax Rohmer set in the Limehouse area of London. It is not a Fu Manchu novel, and concerns itself with opium and cocaine. [1] It is based on the story of Billie Carleton, a young English actress whose scandalous lifestyle ended with her death from a drug overdose in 1918. [2]

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Adaptations

The novel was adapted into comics by Trina Robbins between 1981 and 1983 in Eclipse Magazine and Eclipse Monthly . IDW Publishing published a collected edition of this work in 2017, with a postface by Jon B. Cooke.

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References

  1. ↑ Booth, Martin (2011). Cannabis: A History. Random House. p. 259. ISBN   9781409084891 . Retrieved 24 July 2014.
  2. ↑ Witchard, Anne Veronica (2009). Thomas Burke's Dark Chinoiserie: Limehouse Nights and the Queer Spell of Chinatown. Ashgate Publishing. p. 114. ISBN   9780754658641 . Retrieved 24 July 2014.


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