IT'S WIT AND HUMANITY VERSUS SLEAZE AND DEATH. Pretty runaway Apple May strips nightly at Ozark City's newest club, but when she wants out it's Dan Spalding's job to run interference with mob boss Adrian Mitchell. Except the higher-ups aren't ready to let Apple go.in fact, they're dead set against it. Dan Spalding returns in a violent new mystery collection where sex is a fringe benefit, and human life is the stock in trade.