Judge Dee at Work: eight Chinese detective stories ((Judge Dee #8 publ 14)

Blurb

Judge Dee at Work is a collection of gong'an detective short stories written by Robert van Gulik and set in Imperial China. It is a fiction based on the real character of Judge Dee, a 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.