Editing Time Stops for No Mouse

{{short description|1999 novel by Michael Hoeye}}
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{{Infobox book|<!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books -->
| name              = Time Stops for No Mouse
| image             = Time Stops for No Mouse cover.jpg
| caption           = 2001 paperback edition <!---1st edition preferred--->
| author            = [[Michael Hoeye]]
| cover_artist      = 
| country           = United States
| language          = English
| series            = [[The Hermux Tantamoq Adventures]]
| genre             = [[Children's literature|Children's novel]]
| publisher         = Speak, a division of [[G. P. Putnam's Sons|Penguin Putnam]]
| pub_date          = 1999
| media_type        = Print ([[Hardcover|Hardback]] & [[Paperback]])
| pages             = 250 pp
| isbn              = 0-698-11991-6
| oclc              = 51688458
| followed_by       = [[The Sands of Time (Hoeye novel)|The Sands of Time]]
}}

'''''Time Stops for No Mouse''''' is a [[children's fiction|children's]] [[Mystery fiction|mystery]] novel written by [[Michael Hoeye]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Donnelly |first=Daria |date=2001-04-06 |title=Time Stops for No Mouse |url=https://www.proquest.com/openview/dd072deac0333b6d9c40e17ea25d6702/1.pdf |journal=Commonweal |location=New York |volume=128 |issue=7 |pages=21–23 |via=ProQuest}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Carroll |first=Alainna |date=2003 |title=Time Stops for No Mouse |url=https://www.proquest.com/openview/dc0fac565e83033642a5ee02310f16a4/1 |journal=New England Reading Association Journal |volume=39 |issue=2 |pages=55 |via=ProQuest}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=March 15, 2002 |title=Time Stops for No Mouse |url=https://www.booklistonline.com/products/384332 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2025-02-10 |website=[[Booklist]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Krug |first=Nora |date=2002-06-16 |title=CHILDREN'S BOOKS |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/16/books/children-s-books-428540.html?searchResultPosition=1 |access-date=2025-02-10 |work=[[The New York Times]] |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2002-01-01 |title=Time Stops for No Mouse by Michael Hoeye |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780399238789 |access-date=2025-02-10 |website=[[Publishers Weekly]]}}</ref> The novel was originally self-published, then published by Speak, a division of [[G. P. Putnam's Sons|Penguin Putnam]] in 1999. It was a finalist for the [[Book Sense]] "Book of the Year" award and was reprinted in 2000 and 2002. ''Time Stops for No Mouse'' is the first in the [[The Hermux Tantamoq Adventures|Hermux Tantamoq]] series, and it currently has three sequels, ''[[The Sands of Time (Hoeye novel)|The Sands of Time]]'', ''[[No Time Like Show Time]]'' and ''[[Time to Smell the Roses]]''.

==Plot summary==
At the beginning of the story, the mouse Hermux Tantamoq is a watchmaker in Pinchester, a [[Manhattan]]-like [[metropolis]] inhabited by [[rodent]]s, [[bird]]s, and [[mustelid]]s. He is hired by aircraft-pilot Linka Perflinger (another mouse) to mend her [[wristwatch]]. When the watch is requested, without Linka's permission, by a criminal [[rat]], Hermux refuses to hand it over, and later witnesses Linka's capture by similar rats, who are working on behalf of antagonist Dr. Hiril Mennus. Investigating this, Hermux learns that Mennus, in partnership with sub-antagonist Tucka Mertslin, seeks to patent a rejuvenation formula obtained by Linka's client, Dr. Turfip Dandiffer. Assisted by the [[Mole (animal)|mole]] journalist Pup Schoonagliffen (Mennus in [[disguise]]), Hermux infiltrates Mennus' clinic, but is himself captured; whereupon Mennus places Hermux and Linka in a [[mousetrap]] to die. To maintain control of Tucka Mertslin, Mennus memorizes and destroys the formula; but by an inept use thereof, reduces himself to infancy. Hermux and Linka are thereafter rescued by Dr. Dandiffer's sponsor, Ortolina Perriflot. Some days later, Hermux approaches Linka, intending to propose marriage, but finds her already engaged to Dandiffer. Later, he uses the remnant formula to restore the eyesight of his friend Mirrin Sentrill.

==Editions==
The story was first published by the author as a two-volume set, spiral-bound card, in a limited edition of 1000. It was then taken up by Penguin Putnam, who for world-wide rights paid Hoeye what at the time was "the record sum received for a children's book".<ref>Sandra L. Beckett, ''Crossover Fiction: global and historical perspectives'' (Taylor & Francis, 2009)  p. 215</ref>

*{{ISBN|0-399-23878-6}} (Hardcover)
*{{ISBN|0-698-11991-6}} (Trade paper)

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