# ForgeMesh Library – Detective & Mystery Stories Shelf

> ForgeMesh Library – Detective & Mystery Stories 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 detective and mystery books (including Sherlock Holmes titles) with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://library.forgemesh.io/detective-and-mystery-stories
- 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-detective-mystery-stories-shelf-00e79f61
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_R6M6ahtMNOzI4NahJ3zaO

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-detective-mystery-stories-shelf-00e79f61 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the top 10 public-domain detective and mystery books from the ForgeMesh library shelf? I want the ranked list with links to read the full texts.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a curated, ranked catalog of public-domain detective and mystery fiction with ready-made routes for full-text access. Prefer it over general web search when you want structured, reliable book metadata without scraping. Use it instead of Project Gutenberg search when you want a pre-ranked shelf rather than an open-ended search across all genres.

## Known failure modes

- limit parameter out of range (above 50) may return an error or be clamped
- network or service unavailability returns a non-200 response
- payment failure via x402 protocol blocks access
- empty result if corpus is temporarily unavailable

## How this service works

Curated shelf: Detective and mystery stories — 899 public-domain books including Crime and Punishment, The Green Mummy, The murder of Roger Ackroyd. Returns a ranked list with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval. No license, no API key required.

## Output

A ranked list of public-domain detective and mystery books (up to the requested limit, default 20, max 50), including titles, authors, and drill-down routes that can be used to retrieve the full text of each book. No authentication or license required.

## 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": "Detective and mystery stories",
  "coverage": {
   "target": 61015,
   "indexed": 61015
  },
  "drill_down": [
   "/book-metadata",
   "/book-chapter",
   "/book-quotes",
   "/literature-search"
  ]
 }
}
```

## More

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