In a section of this series in which all the character names are colors, Blue is hired to watch Black from an (*) apartment across the street.
One character in this set of works lies in an open grave in the snow on a trip to a cemetery, shortly before learning that his father has just died of cancer. Another character in this series locks his son in a darkened room for nine years to reverse the effects of the Tower of Babel by redeveloping prelapsarian language, a theory he falsely claims to have discovered in a manuscript by Henry Dark. In a section of this series in which all the character names are colors, Blue is hired to watch Black from an (*) apartment across the street. In the third volume of this work, an unnamed narrator is made literary executor for Fanshawe, an author who has disappeared. The protagonist of the first volume of this work is hired to prevent Peter Stillman from killing his son. That protagonist is a writer named Daniel Quinn who is mistaken for a private investigator. Consisting of Ghosts, The Locked Room, and City of Glass, for 10 points, name this set of three postmodernist detective-fiction-inspired novels by Paul Auster, all set in the namesake city.
One character in this set of works lies in an open grave in the snow on a trip to a cemetery, shortly before learning that his father has just died of cancer.
The New York Trilogy [prompt on City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room, before mentioned]