# library.forgemesh.io – Private Investigators England Fiction Shelf

> library.forgemesh.io – Private Investigators England 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 2026-09-14).

Returns a ranked list of up to 50 public-domain fiction books featuring private investigators set in England, including Sherlock Holmes titles, with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://library.forgemesh.io/private-investigators-england-fiction
- Price: $0.003/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/library-forgemesh-io-private-investigators-england-fiction-shelf-d2e2b954
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_D-BzG2NZVcc_F01YQVPjF

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-private-investigators-england-fiction-shelf-d2e2b954 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the curated shelf of public-domain English private investigator fiction — give me the top 10 books with their drill-down routes so I can fetch the full text?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a curated, pre-ranked list of public-domain English private investigator fiction without any licensing overhead. It is ideal for populating reading apps, generating classic mystery reading lists, or discovering Sherlock Holmes and similar titles for full-text retrieval. Prefer it over a general web search when you want a structured, machine-readable result with direct drill-down routes to full text.

## Known failure modes

- Limit parameter out of range (over 50) may return an error or be clamped
- Payment failure via x402 protocol prevents access
- Endpoint may return fewer than requested results if the indexed corpus has fewer matching titles
- Network timeout if the service is temporarily unavailable

## How this service works

Curated shelf: Private investigators -- England -- Fiction — 13 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 50 public-domain fiction books in the private-investigators-England category, including titles like The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles, and A Study in Scarlet, each with drill-down routes that can be used to retrieve the full text. No API key or license required.

## 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 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes",
    "author": "Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930",
    "book_id": 1661,
    "subjects": [],
    "download_count": 23345
   }
  ],
  "count": 5,
  "shelf": "Private investigators -- England -- Fiction",
  "coverage": {
   "target": 860,
   "indexed": 860
  },
  "drill_down": [
   "/book-metadata",
   "/book-chapter",
   "/book-quotes",
   "/literature-search"
  ]
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/library-forgemesh-io-private-investigators-england-fiction-shelf-d2e2b954/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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