Dope (novel)
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 cannabis rather than opium.[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]
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 John B. Cooke.
See also
References
- Booth, Martin (2011). Cannabis: A History. Random House. p. 259. ISBN 9781409084891. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
- Witchard, Anne Veronica (2009). Thomas Burke's Dark Chinoiserie: Limehouse Nights and the Queer Spell of Chinatown. Ashgate Publishing. p. 114. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
External links
- Dope: Sax Rohmer at the Internet Archive
- Sax Rohmer's Dope graphic novel on Google Books
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