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Free Books: Mystery and Detective Stories
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Free Books: Mystery and Detective Stories is a paid API for AI agents from intel.rallylive.ca, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).
Returns a paginated catalogue of free public-domain mystery and detective story books from Project Gutenberg and Internet Archive, ranked by relevance and popularity, with download links.
Price / call$0.01
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StatusUnknown
How this service works
Free public-domain books on "Mystery and detective stories": browse the catalogue's works tagged with that Library of Congress subject (273 in Project Gutenberg alone, plus Internet Archive scans), ranked by relevance and popularity, with direct epub/txt/html download links. Add words to narrow by title or author. Re-verified daily. $0.01 per page of 20.
Output
A paginated list (20 books per page) of public-domain mystery and detective story books, including titles, authors, relevance and popularity rankings, and direct download links in epub, txt, and/or html formats. Data is re-verified daily and drawn from Project Gutenberg (273+ titles) and Internet Archive scans.
Example use cases
Classic detective novel discovery
“Show me the most popular free mystery and detective books I can download right now — I want epub or txt format links for classic whodunits.”
Author-specific mystery search
“Find free public-domain books by Arthur Conan Doyle in the mystery and detective category — I want direct download links for anything available.”
Title keyword browse for book club
“I'm looking for free mystery books with 'murder' in the title from Project Gutenberg — can you pull up a list with download links?”
Technical details
Endpoint
GEThttps://intel.rallylive.ca/library/subject/mystery-and-detective-storiesWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need a curated, daily-verified catalogue of free public-domain mystery and detective fiction with direct download links, especially when you want relevance and popularity rankings or need to filter by author/title keywords. Prefer this over general web search when you specifically want legally free, public-domain works with structured metadata and direct file links.
Side effects
- No results returned if search keywords match no titles or authors
- Pagination out of range returns empty result set
- Occasional stale metadata between daily re-verification cycles
- Payment failure or insufficient USDC balance blocks access
Input
Schema · Request body
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