<p>The inspiration for blue blood actually came from a murder in cambridge - and Pamela Thomas-Graham never attended Yale:</p>
<p>"Pamela Thomas-Graham: There was a real-life incident that occurred in 1991 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which many people still probably remember: The wife of a Harvard professor, who was also a professor herself, named Mary Jo Frug, was found on a deserted street in Cambridge, a victim of stab wounds that she later died from. The case has never been solved. It’s one of those notorious unsolved incidents where it’s never been clear whether her attacker was a stranger or someone who knew her. At the time that it occurred many people said there were so many interesting facets of the case that would have made an interesting novel, and I thought to myself, “Yes, it would be an interesting starting point for a novel.”</p>
<p>Isn’t a harvard student currently on trial for murder -Pring wilson or something? And you worry about getting burglarized by fellow students.</p>