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ForgeMesh Library — Mystery Fiction Shelf
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ForgeMesh Library — Mystery Fiction Shelf is a paid API for AI agents from library.forgemesh.io, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).
Returns a ranked list of up to 50 curated public-domain mystery fiction books with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval
Price / call$0.003
Success—
StatusUnknown
How this service works
Curated shelf: Mystery fiction — 339 public-domain books including Dracula, The Woman in White, The Big Four. 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 mystery fiction books (up to the requested limit, default 20, max 50), including titles like Dracula and The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, along with drill-down routes that allow the caller to retrieve the full text of each book.
Example use cases
Classic mystery reading list
“Give me a list of up to 20 classic public-domain mystery novels I can read for free — I'm especially interested in gothic and detective fiction like Dracula or Poe's stories.”
Research tool for mystery genre study
“I'm writing an essay on the history of mystery fiction. Can you pull the full curated list of public-domain mystery books available, up to 50 titles, so I can see what classic works are in the corpus?”
Book recommendation chatbot seeding
“I need to populate my reading recommendation bot with mystery fiction titles. Fetch me a ranked list of 30 public-domain mystery books with their drill-down routes so I can link users to the full texts.”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://library.forgemesh.io/mystery-fictionWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need a pre-curated, ranked list of public-domain mystery fiction books with full-text access routes, without needing to build or maintain your own index. Ideal for reading apps, literary research agents, or recommendation systems that want authoritative classic mystery titles (including Poe and Dracula) without API key overhead. Prefer this over a general web search when you want structured, consistent metadata and drill-down text retrieval in one call.
Side effects
- Limit parameter exceeds 50 — API likely returns an error or clamps to max
- Payment not included or insufficient USDC — x402 payment required error
- Server unavailable — HTTP 5xx response with no book data
- Invalid request body format — 400 bad request if limit is not an integer
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": "Dracula",
"author": "Stoker, Bram",
"book_id": 345,
"subjects": [],
"download_count": 61311
}
],
"count": 5,
"shelf": "Mystery fiction",
"coverage": {
"target": 61015,
"indexed": 61015
},
"drill_down": [
"/book-metadata",
"/book-chapter",
"/book-quotes",
"/literature-search"
]
}
}Tags
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