The Singer Not the Song (novel)

The Singer Not the Song
	First edition
Author	Audrey Erskine Lindop
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre	Drama
Publisher	Heinemann (Britain) ; Pocket Books (US)
Publication date	1953
Media type	Print

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]

References[edit]

^ Vinson, James (1999). Twentieth-Century Romance and Gothic Writers. Walter de Gruyter. p. 253.
^ Goble, Alan (1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. p. 954.

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[1] Vinson, James (1999). Twentieth-Century Romance and Gothic Writers. Walter de Gruyter. p. 253.

[2] Goble, Alan (1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. p. 954.

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v t e Works by Audrey Erskine Lindop
Novels	In Me My Enemy (1948) Soldiers' Daughters Never Cry (1948) The Tall Headlines (1950) The Singer Not the Song (1953) I Thank a Fool (1958) Nicola (1959) The Way to the Lantern (1961) I Start Counting (1966) Sight Unseen (1969) Journey Into Stone (1972) The Self-Appointed Saint (1975)
Screenwriter	Blanche Fury (1948) Tall Headlines (1952) The Rough and the Smooth (1959) Danger on Dartmoor (1980)
Story by film	The Singer Not the Song (1961) I Thank a Fool (1962) I Start Counting (1970)