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Forgemesh Library – Sherlock Holmes Fiction Shelf
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Forgemesh Library – Sherlock Holmes 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 2026-09-13).
Returns a ranked list of up to 8 public-domain Sherlock Holmes fiction books with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval
Price / call$0.003
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StatusUnknown
How this service works
Curated shelf: Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character) -- Fiction — 8 public-domain books including The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles, A Study in Scarlet. 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 8 public-domain Sherlock Holmes fiction books (e.g. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles, A Study in Scarlet), each entry including the book title and a drill-down route that can be used to retrieve the full text. Results are ordered by historical popularity or relevance ranking.
Example use cases
Building a Holmes reading list
“Can you get me the complete ranked list of Sherlock Holmes public-domain books from the Forgemesh Library shelf — I want all of them so I can build a reading list?”
Finding free Hound of Baskervilles text
“I want to read The Hound of the Baskervilles for free — can you look up the Sherlock Holmes shelf on Forgemesh and get me the link to the full text?”
Sourcing Holmes stories for a chatbot
“I'm building a detective fiction chatbot and need public-domain Sherlock Holmes texts — fetch the top 10 titles from the Forgemesh Holmes shelf so I can pick which ones to ingest.”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://library.forgemesh.io/holmes-sherlock-fictitious-character-fictionWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you specifically need a curated, ranked list of public-domain Sherlock Holmes fiction titles with direct links to full-text retrieval. It is ideal for agents building reading lists, sourcing classical detective fiction text corpora, or linking users to free canonical Holmes works. Prefer it over general web search when you need structured, reliable metadata with pre-validated public-domain status and no licensing concerns.
Side effects
- Limit parameter exceeds 50 — API may return an error or cap at 50
- Payment not processed — x402 payment required before content is returned
- Endpoint returns fewer than expected results if the shelf contains fewer than the requested limit
- Drill-down routes returned may be unavailable if individual book endpoints are down
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": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes",
"author": "Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930",
"book_id": 1661,
"subjects": [],
"download_count": 23345
}
],
"count": 5,
"shelf": "Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character) -- Fiction",
"coverage": {
"target": 860,
"indexed": 860
},
"drill_down": [
"/book-metadata",
"/book-chapter",
"/book-quotes",
"/literature-search"
]
}
}Tags
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