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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 (15[1])apartment. A character in this series uses Humpty Dumpty as the basis for a fictional secretary of John Milton named Henry Dark, whom he fabricates (-5[1])to justify his theory of recovering the (*) prelapsarian language, which he tests by locking his son in a dark room for nine years. In an entry in this series, the narrator attempts to track down Fanshawe after being named his literary executor. Peter Stillman hires Daniel Quinn to protect him in the first entry in this series, which centers on private investigators. For 10 points, the novels Ghosts, (10[1])The Locked Room, and City of Glass make up what series by Paul Auster titled for an American city? ■END■

ANSWER: The New York Trilogy [reject “New York” alone; reject “New York series”]
<Literature - American Literature - Long Fiction>
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