I saw the TV movie Judge Dee and the Monastery Murders years ago and really liked it -- some great performances by Mako and James Hong, and it was a very interesting story to boot, with lots of Sherlock Holmes-esque clever observations and deductions by Dee, who was also rather humorous.

I later read Gulik's translations of a couple Chinese Judge Dee stories but never got around to checking out his original writings. At any rate, I am hoping he does a decent job with this.