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 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 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 (10[1])hires Daniel Quinn to protect him in the first entry in this series, (10[1]-5[1])which centers on private investigators. For 10 points, the novels Ghosts, The Locked Room, and City of Glass make up what series by Paul Auster titled for an American city? ■END■ (10[1])