| The Singer Not the Song | |
| Author: | Audrey Erskine Lindop |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Publisher: | Heinemann (Britain) Pocket Books (US) |
| Release Date: | 1953 |
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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.[1] 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.[2]