History Literature / TheHermuxTantamoqAdventures

* TheSvengali: What Crounce thinks Glissin ([[spoiler:alias Nurella Pinch]]) is to Beulith—training her as a replacement star whom she can control.

** In the third book, one gerbil has a pet cricket on a leash, evoking human celebrities with small pet dogs.

* HeKnowsTooMuch: Likely how Dr Jervutz was murdered in the first book—it seems he found out [[spoiler:Dr Mennus is after the rejuvenating plant samples dug up by the Dandiffer expedition, and was killed before he could warn Dr Dandiffer about it]].

* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: In the first book, Linka's abduction → Conspiracy to get the Fountain of Youth plant and its chemical analysis, and silencing (i.e. murdering) anyone in the way

** Regarding technological development, the closest human analogue is tricky to place, but technology appears to have reached the equivalent of [[TheThirties 1930s]]–[[TheSixties 1960s]] human levels. Communications technologies have not advanced beyond telephones, telegraphs, and film; airplanes (such as Linka's) are vaguely implied to be analogous to pre-1950s human planes, and television sets are never mentioned, let alone computers. The one exception may be the U-Babe cosmetic surgery machine in the first book, which is operated from some sort of computer panel, but [[{{Zeerust}} it is treated as being ahead of its time]].

* WorldOfMammals: Most of the sapient species in this world are various kinds of mammals—various rodents, carnivores like otters and cats, insectivores like hedgehogs and shrews, etc. Nonmammal species like birds, reptiles and insects fulfil many of the niches that mammalian pets—and prey animals—fill in the RealLife human world.

* [[ThatManIsDead That Mouse Is Dead]]: Invoked by [[spoiler:Glissin (though she does get better and reassume that old persona)]]:

* ResortOfHorrors: The Last Resort spa, with its guard snakes, intricate but dangerous cosmetic-surgery equipment, and the whole business of being owned by a MadDoctor.

%%* ResortOfHorrors: The Last Resort.

* TheBeautifulElite: A lot of page time is spent in the MouseWorld's equivalent of high society, with classy, glamorous rodents & other mammals featured in detail. Their main city, Pinchester, is clearly modelled on UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, particularly Manhattan and the Upper East Side. [[note]]In some print editions, the typeface used for chapter headings even resembles the typeface used for the masthead of ''Magazine/TheNewYorker'', if they're not in fact the same.[[/note]]

* ChekhovsGun: The crimped penny from the Noddems' grandfather clock, the crumbs in Hermux's pocket, Linka's ring, Terfle's drawing skills... it is a detective series after all.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Mice have speciesist prejudices against other rodents, and in ''The Sands of Time'', mouse-supremacist movements harassing chipmunks like Birch as well as his "chipmunk-loving" mouse friends—including Hermux's parents; a very clear analogue to [[UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement racist white humans targeting black activism and their white allies in the 1950s and 1960s]].

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Mice have speciesist prejudices against other rodents, and in ''The Sands of Time'', mouse-supremacist movements harassing chipmunks like Birch as well as his "chipmunk-loving" mouse friends—including Hermux's parents; a very clear analogue to [[racist white humans targeting black activism and their white allies in the 1950s and 1960s UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement]].

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Mice have speciesist prejudices against other rodents, and in ''The Sands of Time'', mouse-supremacist movements harassing chipmunks like Birch as well as his "chipmunk-loving" mouse friends—including Hermux's parents; a very clear analogue to [[racist white humans targeting black activism and their white allies in the 1950s and 1960s UsefulNotes/TheCivilRightsMovement]].

* FantasticRacism / AnimalJingoism: The various species of rodent have several stereotypic ideas about each other. Even Hermux is influenced by this at first, calling chipmunks "a clownish lot" and not believing a mole could be a {{Mad Scientist}}. He grows out of it eventually.

%%* LaserGuidedKarma: Tucka's ending in the first book.

* ScaryScorpions: And ''huge''. Linka, Hermux, and Birch have to face off against a gigantic scorpion in the depths of an ancient cat temple in the desert.

* ScorpionsAreScary: And ''huge''. Linka, Hermux, and Birch have to face off against a gigantic scorpion in the depths of an ancient cat temple in the desert.