Title: A darker shade of crimson
Description: The dean of students, a black woman, is murdered in Harvard University. The body is discovered by her friend, Nikki Chase, and in the course of her investigation Nikki, a black economics professor, hears that the victim may have been having an affair with the college president.
Subjects: African American women college teachers, Murder, Harvard University, Fiction, Women detectives, African American women, Faculty, Black Women college teachers, Professeures noires américaines (Enseignement supérieur), Romans, nouvelles, Meurtre
Places: Cambridge (Mass.), Cambridge, Massachusetts