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Judge Dee, or Judge Di, is a semi-fictional character based on the historical figure Di Renjie, county magistrate and statesman of the Tang court. The character appeared in the 18th-century Chinese detective and gong'an crime novel Di Gong An. After Robert van Gulik came across it in an antiquarian book store in Tokyo, he translated the novel into English and then used the style and characters to write his own original Judge Dee historical mystery stories. The series is set in Tang dynasty China and deals with criminal cases solved by the upright and shrewd Judge Dee, who as county magistrate in the Chinese imperial legal system was both the investigating magistrate and judge. Source: Wikipedia (en)
Works in which Judge Dee appears 19
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Poets and Murder
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Judge Dee at Work
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Necklace and Calabash
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Murder in Canton
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The Phantom of the Temple
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The Monkey and the Tiger
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The Morning of the Monkey
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The Emperor's Pearl
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The Lacquer Screen
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The Chinese Nail Murders
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The Haunted Monastery
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The Red Pavilion
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The Chinese Lake Murders
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Six Cases for Judge Dee
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The Chinese Gold Murders
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The Chinese Bell Murders
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The Chinese Maze Murders
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Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee
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Van Gulik's Judge Dee series
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