Victoria Roberts's Illustration of 'A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder': The New Yorker Click on the image to expand. One of the fall theatre season's surprise hits is "A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder" (at the Walter Kerr), Robert L. Freedman and Steven Lutvak's musical adaptation of a 1907 novel by Roy Horniman. Set in Edwardian London, the story concerns one Monty Navarro (Bryce Pinkham), who discovers that he is a disinherited member of the noble D'Ysquith family and a distant heir to become Earl of Highhurst. Blithely homicidal, he sets about dispatching the eight intervening D'Ysquiths, who are all played, with buffoonish alacrity, by the masterly Jefferson Mays. His costume changes alone are Tony-worthy. As the D'Ysquiths fall victim to killer bees, poison, and other curious misfortunes, Monty inches closer to the aristocracy - unless he's found out first. Here, the New Yorker cartoonist Victoria Roberts captures the show's antic humor and its clown-car-esque cast of characters.