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“I started making a list of fake books and imaginary books,” Byers said.

Meyer estimated that he personally gutted, stuffed and glued about half of the fake books by hand.

The warmth of the family melodrama that powers the internal core of the narrative and provides the impetus to push Monk forward with the fake book tends to declaw the social commentary.

"That's an actual crime," he tweeted, arguing it would be a "stronger" case than "some fake book keeping on hush money."

Ms Slotkin said she knew of at least two "fake book clubs" where Republican women tell their husbands they are meeting to discuss literature but actually go out campaigning for Democrats.