Hide a convicted criminal's book (3,2,5,4)

I believe the answer is:

the da vinci code

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'book' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I cannot judge whether it can be defined by this definition.

'hide a convicted criminal's' is the wordplay.
'criminal's' indicates an anagram (I've seen 'criminal' mean this).
'hide'+'a'+'convicted'='hideaconvicted'
'hideaconvicted' is an anagram of 'THE DA VINCI CODE'.

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(Another definition for the da vinci code that I've seen is " Novel".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.

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