- Germans Love Davidhasselhoff: The book series is relatively well-known in France, to the point where a French author Frédéric Lenormand made a number of sequels (though like most of his works, they lean more the comedic than strictly historical detective fiction).
- Mexicans Love Speedy Gonzales: While some critics have dismissed Van Gulik's stories as Orientalist, they were popular enough with Chinese audiences to invigorate interest in the Historical Domain Character of Judge Dee, and with Chinese-American audiences to inspire at least one Fan Sequel written by a Chinese American.
- Values Resonance: Van Gulik adapted the The Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee because it was structured much like the Western idea of a crime novel: the criminal is not known from the start, and the judge must work out the details instead of having everything revealed to him by a god. While the book does have supernatural elements to it (the judge has a dream that shows which direction to look in, and he stages a "Scooby-Doo" Hoax to get a confession), these are downplayed compared to other such stories.
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