Judge Dee at Work

{{short description|1967 collection of short stories by Robert van Gulik}} {{infobox book |  | name = Judge Dee at Work | image = JudgeDeeAtWork.JPG | caption = First edition | author = Robert van Gulik | cover_artist = | series = Judge Dee | genre = Gong'an fiction, Mystery, Detective novel, Crime | published = Heinemann | release_date = 1967 | media_type = Print | pages = 174 | isbn = | preceded_by = The Phantom of the Temple | followed_by = Necklace and Calabash }}{{More citations needed|date=April 2025}} '''''Judge Dee at Work''''' is a collection of 8 ''gong'an'' detective short stories written by Robert van Gulik<ref>{{Cite web |title=Judge Dee at Work {{!}} ISBNdb |url=https://isbndb.com/book/9780434825516 |access-date=2025-04-09 |website=isbndb.com}}</ref> and set in Imperial China (roughly speaking the Tang dynasty). It is a fiction based on the real character of Judge Dee (Ti Jen-chieh or Di Renjie), a county magistrate and statesman of the Tang court, who lived roughly 630–700.

The book features eight illustrations by the author.

The book also has a postscript where the author places all the novels and stories into a coherent timeline for his semi-fictional character.

==Overview== Judge Dee, a magistrate in Imperial China is a crime solver, a detective. In these stories Judge Dee solves a series of un-related crimes from different times in his career. There is no over-all narrative to these stories.

==List of stories== # "Five Auspicious Clouds" - set in the year 663 when Judge Dee was a magistrate of Peng-lai. # "The Red Tape Murder" - set in the year 663 when Judge Dee was a magistrate of Peng-lai. # "He Came With the Rain" - set in the year 663 was a magistrate of Peng-lai. # "The Murder on the Lotus Pond" - set in the year 666 when Judge Dee was a magistrate of Han-yuan. # "The Two Beggars" - set in the year 668 when Judge Dee was a magistrate of Poo-yang. # "The Wrong Sword" - set in the year 668 when Judge Dee was a magistrate of Poo-yang. # "The Coffins of the Emperor" - set in the year 670 when Judge Dee was a magistrate of Lan-fang. # "Murder on New Year's Eve" - set in the year 670 when Judge Dee was a magistrate of Lan-fang.

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Category:1967 short story collections Category:Judge Dee Category:Gong'an novels Category:Heinemann (publisher) books Category:1960s mystery novels