It is alarming and invokes instant action if your wife goes missing, unable to contact her, but far worse for a woman to lose her pride in a drunken stupor. The characters Chris and Peachy were introduced in A Portrait of Valor, cheated death in The Tar Pit mystery, and matured in Charity. Now in their sixties and struggling to make ends meet, no longer wealthy, Finding Flopsie is two stories -- his and hers -- presented sequentially to show how they loved and fought to survive, separately, unraveling an unsolved murder and its terrible aftermath, life on life's terms in the race to find Flopsie, a retired trapeze flyer on a spiritual quest.