# ForgeMesh Library — Crime, Thrillers & Mystery Shelf

> 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.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://library.forgemesh.io/crime-thrillers-and-mystery
- Price: $0.003/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/forgemesh-library-crime-thrillers-mystery-shelf-a7b37c13
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_zyS00laI-LVtbQsviFk6o

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability forgemesh-library-crime-thrillers-mystery-shelf-a7b37c13 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the top 30 classic crime and mystery books available on the ForgeMesh library shelf — things like Sherlock Holmes and Arsène Lupin?

## When to prefer this

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.

## Known failure modes

- 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

## 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.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "limit": {
   "type": "integer",
   "description": "Max books to return (default 20, max 50)"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "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"
  ]
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/forgemesh-library-crime-thrillers-mystery-shelf-a7b37c13/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from library.forgemesh.io](https://www.zero.xyz/host/library.forgemesh.io/llms.txt)