Judge Dee at Work is a collection of 8 gong'an detective short stories written by Robert van Gulik 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 also has a postscript where the author places all the novels and stories into a coherent timeline for his semi-fictional character.

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.