The Detective Novel in Puerto Rico is the first comprehensive book-length study in English of the detective novel on the island from its origins (1984) to the present (2024). It describes the historical events that served as catalysts and led to the inception of the genre on the island, as well as its subsequent development, from the 1984 publication of Wilfredo Mattos Cintrón’s El cerro de los buitres to the present. In the process, this study establishes a canon for the genre on the island over the last 40 years. It covers 20 authors and some 50 works, many of them hybrid texts, for instance, Rafael Acevedo’s science fiction detective novel Exquisito cadáver (2001). Each text is analysed from one or more critical approach, whether it be socio-political, intertextual, or ideological. The reader will come away with an overview of what has developed in a relatively short span of time into a diverse and innovative literary genre on the island. This volume will be of interest to scholars of Puerto Rican, Caribbean and Latin American literature and academic libraries.
