# free-books-mystery-fiction

> free-books-mystery-fiction 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 fiction books from Project Gutenberg and Internet Archive, ranked by relevance and popularity, with direct download links.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://intel.rallylive.ca/library/subject/mystery-fiction
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/free-books-mystery-fiction-b08c770f
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_LKTchATiVeBgZhA0RLcer

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 free-books-mystery-fiction-b08c770f
```

Example prompt: Can you find me a list of free public-domain mystery fiction books I can download as epub or txt files? Maybe narrow it down to something by Conan Doyle if possible.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a curated, daily-verified catalogue of free public-domain mystery fiction with direct download links, especially when you want to search or filter by title or author within the genre. Prefer this over raw Project Gutenberg scraping for its relevance ranking, multi-source aggregation (Gutenberg + Internet Archive), and structured per-page pricing.

## Known failure modes

- No results returned if search terms are too specific or misspelled
- Pagination out of range returns empty or error response
- Temporary unavailability of upstream Project Gutenberg or Internet Archive data
- Rate limiting or payment failure resulting in HTTP 402

## How this service works

Free public-domain books on "Mystery fiction": browse the catalogue's works tagged with that Library of Congress subject (350 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 fiction titles, including author names, relevance and popularity rankings, and direct download links in epub, txt, and html formats. The catalogue draws from Project Gutenberg (350+ titles) and Internet Archive scans, re-verified daily.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {}
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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