Detective literature - a panoramic approach

This paper is divided into two parts: in part I we address the origins and characteristics of the detective fiction literature and in part II we address detective fiction literature written by Brazilians. In each of these parts, there are three subdivisions organized as follows: Edgar Allan Poe and the birth of the detective genre; Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot; On the detective fiction noir (part I); Around the Brazilian detective; Brazil: on crime and guilt; The expansion of Brazilian detective fiction literature in the XXIst century (part II).