The Singer Not the Song (novel)
# The Singer Not the Song (novel)

The Singer Not the Song is a 1953 novel by the British writer Audrey Erskine Lindop. It was published in the United States by Pocket Books under the alternative title of The Bandit and the Priest. A priest sent to a small Mexican town engages in a moral battle with a local bandit.

It was adapted into a 1961 film The Singer Not the Song directed by Roy Ward Baker and starring Dirk Bogarde, John Mills and Mylène Demongeot.

