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...Langdon achieved international renown a quarter century after philosophy professor Homer Kelly graced the pages of Jane Langdon’s 1978 Murder in Memorial Hall. Chase’s economics department colleague Henry Spearman plays amateur investigator extraordinare in the 1986 novel Fatal Equlibrium. But smart and sassy Nikki Chase shatters gender and color barriers to become the first fictional African-American female Harvard professor-cum-sleuth...
Author Pamela A. Thomas-Graham ’85, whose day job is chief executive officer of CNBC, first introduced readers to Chase in A Darker Shade of Crimson (1998), and she brought Nikki back for an encore performance in Blue Blood (1999). In Thomas-Graham’s latest novel, Orange Crushed, (released next month) an older, wiser Nikki leaves her Cambridge stomping ground to investigate a possible murder at Princeton University. The setting offers a perfect opportunity for Thomas-Graham to contrast her alma mater’s virtues with the New Jersey safety school?...
...mentor, Princeton Afro-American Studies Department chair Earl Stokes—agrees to linger in town to guest-lecture in his undergraduate class Monday morning. Nikki’s long weekend quickly turns nightmarish after Stokes dies in a mysterious blaze. As she hunts for Stokes’ murderer, Nikki finds that blacks and whites in Princeton are related by blood ties formed through a slew of adulterous trysts...
...Nikki tells readers she normally teaches two sections of “Intro Economics” at Harvard on Monday, but that she has cancelled class to give her students time to work on a term-paper. None of the novel’s contrived plot twists approach the absurdity of the suggestion that a Harvard professor on a tenure track would ever see the inside of an Ec 10 section—much less saddle students in that class with an assignment as onerous as a term paper. Thomas-Graham’s business background—she earned...
...welcome sound research into the developing peer-to-peer industry and this study appears to have covered some interesting ground,” said Nikki Hemming, CEO of Sharman Networks, in a press release...