The Game's Afoot

The TV writers didn't equate Mozzie with Sherlock Holmes, but I've long thought Mozzie would view the master detective as a kindred soul. Mozzie would naturally be attracted to Sherlock's brilliant intellect. Both are masters at using disguises. Sherlock, like Mozzie, was an aficionado of classical music and an expert at analyzing cryptic codes. Sherlock's use of a drug to stimulate his deductive reasoning would, alas, also be something Mozzie would appreciate.

Warning for spoilers for the Caffrey Conversation series

In Raphael's Dragon, Mozzie emulated the master detective to solve the mystery of his abduction. He analyzed the circumstances while listening to a violin partita by Johann Sebastian Bach and then used the drug Cinderella to access his hidden memories. In that story, Neal found himself in the unwanted position of playing Watson.

In Nocturne in Black and Gold, Mozzie's inner Sherlock Holmes rises to the surface once more. The art thief Klaus Mansfeld, aka the Leopard, was photographed in an airport with a beautiful woman. Mozzie discovers she has the tattoo of a snake on a finger of her right hand. Could this be the mystery woman masquerading under the code name of Python—the head of the international criminal organization Ydrus? Mozzie speculates that she and the Leopard together comprise a "speckled band." Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had written a story where a dying woman referred to a speckled band. The band turned out to be a venomous snake that was used by a murderer for his nefarious scheme. Is the woman in the photograph also a murderer? Readers know that the Leopard and Python are lovers, and that Mozzie's deduction is correct. There will be much more about this speckled band in the next story in the series, Harlequin's Shadow.

Will Mozzie ever meet Sherlock Holmes? In my Arkham Files series, wormholes are employed to cover vast stretches of space. Mozzie points out that just as Einstein linked time and space, so should I. In the Supernatural universe time, travel has been used in several episodes, making it a possibility for the Crossed Lines series. There's a plot bunny clad in a houndstooth coat and deerstalker cap who is already thumping for recognition.

"The Adventure of the Speckled Band" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Nocturne in Black and Gold on Archive of Our Own
Nocturne in Black and Gold on FanFiction