‘Martin Tripp is a struggling writer who appears to strike gold when he creates private investigator Henry Bloomburg. Henry has solved a lot of unusual cases but one mystery still eludes him, the case of the Fly Guy…a deviant man who seems to slip through the streets unnoticed, appearing to shadow the dead.
Martin writes the interconnected stories of a drug dealer, a bodyguard, a private investigator and Lucy. When Martin finds himself getting stuck on their stories, he buries them. In real life, he embraces change in the form of routine and a more conventional way of life. But when Martin spots someone he shouldn’t, someone he couldn’t possibly be seeing, the line between fantasy and reality is blurred. Martin finds that he can no longer control Henry’s timeline, whose obsession with the Fly Guy’s identity threatens everything that Martin has built.
The Fly Guy is a sinister thriller which explores the creative process and questions how much control artists have over their creations.'
​Dami Okhiriah from Buzz magazine Book of the month Review

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​The Puppet Master is Martin Tripp's first short story as published in Noire.
Henry Bloomburg is called back to re-investigate the case of Richie Hartfield. 
Approx 14,500 words less than 1 hour read.  

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The Puppet Master by Martin Tripp as published in Noire.
Henry Bloomburg is called back to re-investigate the case of Richie Hartfield, a boy taken from his bed over four years ago. 

"For fifteen months Henry followed every lead and he and the Hartfields went over what happened again and again and again. Every time he was led back to the same scene. It was brutal in its simplicity. It was morning. Annie opened the bedroom door. The window was open. The bed was empty." 

When all the possible leads have led to nothing, the only option left is to investigate the impossible....

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