George Dawes Green's 1994 debut novel — about a homeless genius living in a cave in Central Park who investigates a murder — which won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel.
Creates the homeless detective novel — The Caveman's Valentine's protagonist (a classically trained musician with paranoid schizophrenia living in Central Park) is the most unusual detective in American crime fiction and the book's sympathy for homeless mental illness is unusual for the genre.
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