''Dope'' is a 1919 novel by

Sax Rohmer Arthur Henry "Sarsfield" Ward (15 February 1883 – 1 June 1959), better known as Sax Rohmer, was an English novelist. He is best remembered for his series of novels featuring the master criminal Dr. Fu Manchu."Rohmer, Sax" by Jack Adrian in Da ...

set in the

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area of London. It is not a

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novel, and concerns itself with

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rather than

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. 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.

Adaptations

The novel was adapted into comics by

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between 1981 and 1983 in ''

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'' and ''

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''.

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published a collected edition of this work in 2017, with a postface by

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Dope: Sax Rohmer
at the

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Sax Rohmer's Dope
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