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* Played straight in ''[[V for Vendetta]],'' where the corrupt priest Father Liliman pulls out a gun from his Bible when V enters the room.
* ''[[Tintin (Comic Book)]]''. In "Explorers on the Moon" Captain Haddock smuggles his whiskey on board the rocketship inside a [[Doorstopper]] tome, labelled "Guide To Astronomy".
* Used in one ''[[Lucky Luke]]'' story - {{spoiler|a fake priest keeps a revolver in his hollowed-out Bible. Lucky suspects him and asks him to read some words from the Good Book...}}
* Red Hood smuggles a collapsible bow to Arsenal inside a bible in the first issue of ''[[Red Hood and The Outlaws]]''.
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* Variation: A making-of featurette on [[Pirates of the Caribbean]]: At World's End revealed that at one point in production the prop-builders had to turn the "Pirate's Code" book into one, to make it easier for the actors to handle. They don't say if anything was stored inside it afterwards.
* In ''[[National Treasure]]'', Ben's dad keeps money between the pages of Thomas Paine's ''Common Sense.''
* The lead character in ''[[Frankenhooker]]'' keeps a video tape stashed away in a copy of ''[[
* A book of Shakespeare with a gun in it is hidden within a Library in Hard Boiled. Alan walks into the library, gets the book and kills his target. Then he replaces the gun and book on the library shelf and walks out. This was apparently done so the hitman would never be armed if he was caught, but the police find the book because of the blood on it.
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