title: The Singer Not the Song (novel)
text: # 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.
  
  