Judge Dee

The Judge Dee Mysteries in the order in which they were written

• Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee (originally Dee Goong An) (1941-1948 translated from Chinese by Van Gulik)
• The Chinese Maze Murders (originally written 1950, published in Japanese in 1951, published in English in 1957)
• The Chinese Bell Murders (originally written between 1953 and 1956, published in English in 1958)
• The Chinese Lake Murders (originally written between 1953 and 1956, published in English in 1960)
• The Chinese Gold Murders (first published in English in 1959)
• The Chinese Nail Murders (1961)
• The Haunted Monastery (1961)
• The Emperor's Pearl (1963)
• The Lacquer Screen (1964)
• The Red Pavilion (1964)
• The Monkey and the Tiger, short stories (1965)
• The Willow Pattern (1965)
• Murder in Canton (1966)
• The Phantom of the Temple (1966)
• Judge Dee at Work, short stories (1967)
• Necklace and Calabash (1967)
• Poets and Murder (1968)

The Judge Dee Stories in the order in which they were set

• 663 - Judge Dee is a magistrate of Peng-lai, a fictional district on the north-east coast of China.
• The Chinese Gold Murders
• The Lacquer Screen.
• Five Auspicious Clouds, a short story in Judge Dee at Work
• The Red Tape Murders, a short story in Judge Dee at Work
• He came with the Rain, a short story in Judge Dee at Work

• 666 - Judge Dee is the magistrate of Han-yuan, a fictional district on a lakeshore near the capital of Chang-An.
• The Chinese Lake Murders
• The Morning of the Monkey, a short story in The Monkey and the Tiger
• The Murder on the Lotus Pond, a short story in Judge Dee at Work

• 666 - Judge Dee is traveling and forced to take shelter in a monastery.
• The Haunted Monastery

• 668 - Judge Dee is the magistrate of Poo-yang, a fictional wealthy district through which the Grand Canal of China runs (part of modern-day Jiangsu province).
• The Chinese Bell Murders
• The Two Beggars, a short story in Judge Dee at Work
• The Wrong Sword, a short story in Judge Dee at Work
• The Red Pavilion
• The Emperor's Pearl
• Poets and Murder
• Necklace and Calabash

• 670 - Judge Dee is the magistrate of Lan-fang, a fictional district at the western frontier of Tang China.
• The Chinese Maze Murders
• The Phantom of the Temple
• The Coffins of the Emperor, a short story in Judge Dee at Work
• Murder on New Year's Eve, a short story in Judge Dee at Work

• 676 - Judge Dee is the magistrate of Pei-chow, a fictional district in the far north of Tang China.
• The Chinese Nail Murders
• The Night of the Tiger, a short story in The Monkey and the Tiger

• 677 - Judge Dee is the Lord Chief Justice in the Imperial capital of Chang-An.
• The Willow Pattern

• 681 - Judge Dee is the Lord Chief Justice for all of China.
• Murder in Canton

Selected scholarly works

• (with Christianus Cornelius Uhlenbeck). A Blackfoot-English vocabulary based on material from the Southern Peigans. Amsterdam, Uitgave van de N. V. Noord-Hollandsche Uitgevers-Maatschappij, 1934. 12.
• The Lore of the Chinese lute; an essay in ch'in ideology (1941)
• Hsi K'ang and his Poetical Essay on the Lute (1941)
• Erotic Colour Prints of the Ming Period Privately printed, Tokyo (1951)
• Siddham; An Essay on the History of Sanskrit Studies in China and Japan (1956)
• Chinese Pictorial Art, as Viewed by the Connoisseur Istituto Italiano Per Il Medio Ed Estremo Oriente, Roma (1958) (Limited edition in 950 copies)
• Sexual Life in Ancient China. A preliminary survey of Chinese sex and society from ca. 1500 B.C. till 1644 A.D. (1961). (In spite of its titillating title, this book deals with the social role of sex, such as the institutions of concubinage and prostitution.)
• The gibbon in China. An essay in Chinese animal lore. E.J.Brill, Leiden, Holland. (1967)