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library.forgemesh.io Mystery and Detective Stories Shelf
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library.forgemesh.io Mystery and Detective 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 266 public-domain mystery and detective books with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval
Price / call$0.003
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StatusUnknown
How this service works
Curated shelf: Mystery and detective stories — 266 public-domain books including The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar, The Camp Fire Girls Solve a Mystery; Or, The Christmas Adventure at Carver House, Arsène Lupin intervenes. 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 50 mystery and detective public-domain books (defaulting to 20), each with a title and drill-down route enabling full-text retrieval of that specific book. The 266-book corpus includes titles such as The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar and Arsène Lupin intervenes.
Example use cases
Classic mystery reading list
“I want to read some classic public-domain detective fiction — can you pull up a list of 20 mystery novels I can access for free, starting with anything featuring gentleman burglars or clever detectives?”
Research for a writing project
“I'm writing a story in the golden age detective fiction style and need inspiration — can you fetch me a ranked list of 50 public-domain mystery and detective stories I can read as reference material?”
Book club selection from free classics
“Our book club wants to read a free classic mystery novel next month — can you give me a list of the top public-domain mystery and detective books so we can pick one to read together?”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://library.forgemesh.io/mystery-and-detective-storiesWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you specifically need a browsable, ranked list of public-domain mystery and detective fiction titles with routes to full text — rather than full-text search across all genres. Prefer this over the full-text search sibling when the goal is catalog browsing or building a reading list, not retrieving specific passages. Best for agents helping users discover classic crime and detective novels without licensing concerns.
Side effects
- limit parameter exceeds maximum of 50 — server may return an error or clamp to 50
- limit parameter is non-integer — schema validation failure
- network timeout or 402 payment failure if x402 payment is not processed correctly
- empty result set unlikely given fixed corpus size but possible if corpus changes
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 Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar",
"author": "Leblanc, Maurice",
"book_id": 6133,
"subjects": [],
"download_count": 75744
}
],
"count": 5,
"shelf": "Mystery and detective stories",
"coverage": {
"target": 61015,
"indexed": 61015
},
"drill_down": [
"/book-metadata",
"/book-chapter",
"/book-quotes",
"/literature-search"
]
}
}Tags
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