Order of Robert Van Gulik Books
Robert Van Gulik (1910-1967) was a Dutch author of historical mystery novels and short stories. He wrote the Judge Dee Mysteries series. Van Gulik was born in the Netherlands, but spent his early years in (what is now) Jakarta, Indonesia and learned multiple languages. He earned his PhD from Leiden University back home in 1935. Van Gulik would then end up working as a linguist for the Dutch Foreign Service. He was in Tokyo at the time World War II broke out, so he was evacuated and ended up in China where he got married. The rest of Van Gulik’s life was spent moving all over the world, but he ended up dying in The Hague, The Netherlands. At the time of his death, he was the Dutch ambassador to Japan.
Robert Van Gulik became a published author in 1948 with the translation Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee. His first original work was The Chinese Maze Murders. His final work was Murder in Canton, published in 1966. Below is a list of Robert Van Gulik’s books in order of when they were originally released:
Publication Order of Judge Dee Mysteries Books
Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee / Dee Goong An | (1949) | |
The Chinese Bell Murders | (1958) | |
The Chinese Gold Murders | (1959) | |
The Chinese Lake Murders | (1960) | |
The Chinese Nail Murders | (1961) | |
The Haunted Monastery | (1961) | |
The Red Pavilion | (1961) | |
The Chinese Maze Murders | (1962) | |
The Lacquer Screen | (1962) | |
The Emperor’s Pearl | (1963) | |
The Monkey and The Tiger | (1965) | |
The Phantom of the Temple | (1965) | |
The Willow Pattern | (1965) | |
Murder in Canton | (1966) | |
Judge Dee at Work | (1967) | |
Necklace and Calabash | (1967) | |
Poets and Murder / The Fox-Magic Murders | (1968) |
Chronological Order of Judge Dee Mysteries Books
Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee / Dee Goong An | (1949) | |
The Chinese Gold Murders | (1959) | |
The Lacquer Screen | (1962) | |
Judge Dee at Work | (1967) | |
The Chinese Lake Murders | (1960) | |
The Monkey and The Tiger | (1965) | |
The Haunted Monastery | (1961) | |
The Chinese Bell Murders | (1958) | |
The Red Pavilion | (1961) | |
The Emperor’s Pearl | (1963) | |
Poets and Murder / The Fox-Magic Murders | (1968) | |
Necklace and Calabash | (1967) | |
The Chinese Maze Murders | (1962) | |
The Phantom of the Temple | (1965) | |
The Chinese Nail Murders | (1961) | |
The Willow Pattern | (1965) | |
Murder in Canton | (1966) |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
The Given Day | (1986) |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Sexual Life in Ancient China | (1961) | |
The Lore of the Chinese Lute: An Essay on the Ideology of the Ch’in | (1969) | |
Crime and Punishment in Ancient China | (1979) | |
Chinese Pictorial Art | (1981) | |
Erotic Colour Prints of the Ming Period | (1989) | |
John Searle and his Critics | (1991) | |
Siddham | (2001) | |
Scrapbook for Chinese Collectors | (2006) |
Publication Order of Chicago Shorts Books
What Every Novelist Needs to Know about Narrators | (2012) | |
Murder in Ancient China | (2013) | |
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Publication Order of Anthologies
Historical Whodunits | (1993) | |
The Oxford Book of Detective Stories | (2000) |
Notes: Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee was originally published in Chinese as Dee Goong An by an unknown author, and translated by Robert Van Gulik. Poets and Murder was also titled The Fox-Magic Murders.