In an entry in this series, the narrator claims to be Herman Melville when talking to a stranger at a bar, right before he chases the stranger outside and tackles him. An entry in this series ends after two characters find a red notebook in an empty apartment. A character in this series uses Humpty (-5[1])Dumpty as the basis for a fictional secretary of John Milton named Henry Dark, whom he fabricates to justify his theory of recovering the (*) prelapsarian language, which he tests by (10[1])locking his son (10[1])in a dark room for nine years. (10[1])In an entry in this series, (10[1])the narrator attempts to track down Fanshawe after being named (10[1])his literary (10[1])executor. (10[1]-5[1])Peter Stillman hires Daniel Quinn (10[1])to protect him in the first entry in this series, which centers on private investigators. For 10 points, the novels Ghosts, The Locked Room, and City of Glass (10[1])make up what series (10[1])by (10[1]-5[1])Paul Auster (10[1])titled (10[1])for (10[1])an American city? (10[1])■END■ (10[3]0[3])