Abstract
Taking as a starting point that the crime novel in Mexico has been nationalized with the neopolicial developed by Paco Ignacio Taibo II, this study addresses the presence of those reflections on the detective occupation within the Mexican context included in his nine novels featuring Héctor Belascoarán Shayne. These reflections, which constitute judgments and qualifications towards the aforementioned character, as well as comparisons between him and the classic references of the crime novel, question the existence and the plausibility of this occupation in Mexican reality, while in turn they outline a series of characteristics of the Mexican detective, and at the same time presenting an example of the realism to which the Taibo’s crime literature aspires. This study, therefore, aims to show that the difficult assimilation of the existence of a detective in Mexico should be considered as a feature of the nationalization of the neopolicial genre.
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