Paul Ford

Traveling con artist Harold Hill targets the naïve residents of a small town in 1910s Iowa by posing as a boys' band leader to raise money before he can skip town.

Without hostile intent, a Soviet submarine runs aground off New England. Men are sent for a boat, but many villagers go into a tizzy, risking bloodshed.

The polarizing search for a new Secretary of State has far-reaching consequences.

In post-WWII Japan, an American captain is brought in to help build a school, but the locals want a teahouse instead.

Fortune seeker Barry Storm stumbles onto some clues that may lead him to the fabulous Lost Dutchman Mine, but others have tried and been murdered.

Thornton Wilder's tale of a matchmaker who desires the man she's supposed to be pairing with another woman.