SHELDON RUSSELL. Dead Man’s Tunnel. Minotaur Books. $25.99, www.minotaurbooks.com.
A whiz-bang mystery set in western Arizona soon after the atomic bomb is dropped and World War II is essentially over. When a military guard stationed at the Johnson Canyon Tunnel, a key railroad conduit for war goods, is run over by a train and killed, yard dog Hook Runyon is called away from trying to catch copper thieves to investigate