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ForgeMesh Library — Crime, Thrillers & Mystery Shelf
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ForgeMesh Library — Crime, Thrillers & Mystery Shelf is a paid API for AI agents from library.forgemesh.io, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).
Returns a ranked list of up to 50 public-domain crime, thriller, and mystery books (including Sherlock Holmes, Jekyll & Hyde, Arsène Lupin) with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval.
Price / call$0.003
Success—
StatusUnknown
How this service works
Curated shelf: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery — 1977 public-domain books including Crime and Punishment, Carmen, The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar. Returns a ranked list with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval. No license, no API key required.
Output
A ranked list of up to 50 public-domain crime, thriller, and mystery books, each entry including the title, author, rank, and a drill-down route that can be used to retrieve the full text of that book.
Example use cases
Classic mystery reading list builder
“Give me the top 20 public-domain crime and mystery novels from the ForgeMesh library so I can build a reading list for my book club.”
Discovering Sherlock Holmes titles
“I want to find all the Sherlock Holmes and classic detective stories available as free public-domain books — can you pull the full list from ForgeMesh's crime and mystery shelf?”
Literary agent research on vintage thrillers
“I'm researching the most historically popular crime and thriller fiction in the public domain — can you fetch up to 50 titles from the ForgeMesh mystery shelf ranked by popularity?”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://library.forgemesh.io/crime-thrillers-and-mysteryWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need a curated, ranked list of public-domain crime, thriller, or mystery books without any authentication or licensing overhead. It is ideal for building reading lists, populating a book discovery UI, or selecting titles for full-text retrieval via sibling endpoints. Prefer it over a general web search when you want structured, consistently ranked metadata rather than unstructured HTML, and when the public-domain constraint is an asset rather than a limitation.
Side effects
- limit exceeds maximum of 50 — API may return an error or cap silently
- payment of $0.003 USDC not processed — returns 402 Payment Required
- no books match (unlikely given fixed curated shelf — may return empty list if corpus changes)
- service temporarily unavailable — standard 5xx error
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| limit | integer | Max books to return (default 20, max 50) |
Output
Schema · Response
{
"type": "json",
"example": {
"books": [
{
"year": null,
"title": "Crime and Punishment",
"author": "Dostoyevsky, Fyodor",
"book_id": 2554,
"subjects": [],
"download_count": 93752
}
],
"count": 5,
"shelf": "Crime, Thrillers and Mystery",
"coverage": {
"target": 61015,
"indexed": 61015
},
"drill_down": [
"/book-metadata",
"/book-chapter",
"/book-quotes",
"/literature-search"
]
}
}Tags
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