 SPOILER: In _39 Steps, The (1935)_ (qv), the professor shoots Hannay  in the chest, and it appears that he is dead. However, the bullet  was stopped by a hymnbook in the breast pocket of the coat he was  wearing. In _Sleepy Hollow (1999)_ (qv), Ichabod is shot and saved  in a similar manner; this time the bullet lodges in a book of magic  spells.