Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee, Dee Goong An, Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee (lit. "Cases of Judge Dee") is an 18th century Chinese detective novel. It is loosely based on the adventures
of Judge Dee, a magistrate and statesman of the Tang court, who lived roughly
630-700. The Dee Goong An was translated by Robert van Gulik 高羅佩 into English and used as the basis for his own series of detective novels about Judge Dee: Judge Dee mysteries (source: Wikipedia)