And yet he never existed. The stories about him are just stories. So, why do we remember him ?
It is because he loves catching criminals. Sherlock Holmes chases the criminal as a hunter chases a fox. He is a bloodhound, a police dog, with his nose to the ground - following the criminal to the end of the world. The criminal may try to hide - but when Sherlock Holmes has stared the chase, we know that he will finish it with a 'kill'.