American Comprehensive Detective: Opening with a black gun

What? I turned out to be the hero of Los Angeles, the patron saint of North America? Impossible, absolutely impossible! Scary Island, Escape from Deadly Town, Wanted Warrant, Evocation, Grudge, Silent Hill, Lurking, The Phantom of the Murder, The Clown's Resurrection,They, the invisible man, in the tall grass, the hut in the woods, the stranger, the god of death, the fog...