# library.forgemesh.io Mystery and Detective Stories Shelf

> 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

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://library.forgemesh.io/mystery-and-detective-stories
- Price: $0.003/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/library-forgemesh-io-mystery-and-detective-stories-shelf-bf1d6293
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_IsCeNieGw9oBVGQtzn736

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 library-forgemesh-io-mystery-and-detective-stories-shelf-bf1d6293 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you give me a list of public-domain mystery and detective books I can read for free — show me up to 30 titles with links to get the full text?

## When to prefer this

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.

## Known failure modes

- 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

## 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.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "limit": {
   "type": "integer",
   "description": "Max books to return (default 20, max 50)"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "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"
  ]
 }
}
```

## More

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- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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