Dope Girls: The Birth of the British Drug Underground

Set in post-World War I London, Dope Girls explores the rise of the city's underground nightlife.

November 27, 1918, London. Just days after the end of the Great War, rising star Billie Carleton took to the stage for the last time. She was found dead the next day; the cause of death ruled to be a cocaine overdose.

Within a few years, the story snowballed into a cautionary tale of the relationship between young ...