His Judge Dee series of novels, over twenty in all, whose hero is as famous as Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie's Miss Marple, have been translated into numerous languages and are still popular in Europe and the United States. He himself drew the illustrations.
他的狄公案（JudgeDee）系列小說廿餘種，與英國道爾爵士 Arthur C. Doyle 的「福爾摩斯神探」（Sherlock Holmes）、克利斯汀（A. Christie 的「馬坡小姐」（Miss Marple）」齊名，至今暢銷歐美，被譯作數種語文，他並且親手繪製書中插圖。