Question: What British crime novelist wrote the book, The Golden Age of Murder?

Context articles: Berserk: The Golden Age Arc
Rebecca Tope
Solution by Phone
John Wainwright (author)
Hartley Howard
Charles West (author)
One Jump Ahead (film)
Swimming Pool (film)
Martin Edwards (author)
The Golden Age of Murder

Berserk: The Golden Age Arc (Japanese: ベルセルク 黄金時代篇 , Hepburn: Beruseruku Ōgon Jidai-hen ) is a series of films, an effort to adapt the Golden Age Arc of Kentaro Miura's "Berserk" manga series.
 The project was first announced as a new anime project in September 2010 on a wraparound jacket band on volume 35 of the "Berserk" manga.
 The first two films, "Berserk: The Golden Age Arc I - The Egg of the King" and "Berserk: The Golden Age Arc II - The Battle for Doldrey", were released in Japan in February and June 2012, with the third film, "Berserk: The Golden Age Arc III - The Advent", released in February 2013.
 The third film also marks the first time new footage based on the manga has been animated beyond the storyline of the TV show.
 Viz Media has licensed all three films for a home video release.
 The first film was released on (DVD/Blu-ray) November 27, 2012, the second on August 6, 2013, and the third on April 15, 2014 in the United States.
Rebecca Tope is a British crime novelist and journalist.
 She is the author of three murder mystery series, featuring the fictional characters of Den Cooper, a Devon police detective, Drew Slocombe, a former nurse, now an undertaker, Thea Osborne, a house sitter in the Cotswolds, and Persimmon Brown, a florist in the Lake District.
 Tope is also ghost writer of the novels based on the ITV series "Rosemary and Thyme".
Solution by Phone is a 1954 British crime film directed by Alfred Travers and starring Clifford Evans, Thea Gregory and Georgina Cookson.
 An actor seeks help from a crime novelist in his attempts to dispose of a body.
John William Wainwright (25 February 1921 – September 1995), was a British crime novelist and author of 83 books, four of which have been published under the pen name Jack Ripley.
 He also wrote some short stories (mostly uncollected in book format), 7 radio plays, and an indefinite amount of magazine articles and newspaper columns.
Hartley Howard (1908–1979) was a pen name of Leopold Horace Ognall, a British crime novelist.
 Ognall was born in Montreal and worked as a journalist before starting his fiction career.
 He wrote over ninety novels before his death in 1979.
 The private eye Glenn Bowman was one of his most successful characters.
 As Harry Carmichael, Ognall's primary series characters were John Piper (an insurance assessor) and "Quinn," a crime reporter.
Charles West (born 1927), British crime novelist, is a former actor.
 He studied acting at RADA and singing at Dartington Hall Music School.
 He was a member of the Old Vic Theatre Company 1958-1962 and subsequently performed in 9 West End musicals in London, including Daddy Warbucks in "Annie" at Victoria Palace beginning in the 1970s and Don Quixote in Man of La Mancha at the Martin Beck Theater on Broadway.
 He wrote his first novel "Destruction Man", while acting in Australia.
 His Australian detective Paul Crook features in "Stonefish", "Stage Fright", "Little Ripper", and "The Long Hook".
 Married to actress Julia West (a National Theatre company member who appeared in the film "Atonement"), he lives in Wallingford, Oxfordshire.
One Jump Ahead is a 1955 British crime film directed by Charles Saunders and starring Paul Carpenter, Diane Hart, Jill Adams and Freddie Mills.
 The film was based on a novel by American crime novelist Robert H. Chapman.
 The screenplay concerns a journalist who helps police track down the killer of a female blackmailer.The title refers to the reporter's attempts to keep "one jump ahead" of the police in solving the crime.
Swimming Pool is a 2003 French-British erotic thriller film directed by François Ozon and starring Charlotte Rampling and Ludivine Sagnier.
 The plot focuses on a British crime novelist, Sarah Morton, who travels to her publisher's upmarket summer house in Southern France to seek solitude in order to work on her next book.
 However, the arrival of Julie, who claims to be the publisher's daughter, induces complications and a subsequent crime.
Martin Edwards (born 7 July 1955), whose full name is Kenneth Martin Edwards, is a British crime novelist, critic and solicitor.
The Golden Age of Murder is a book written by Martin Edwards and published by HarperCollins on 7 May 2015 which later went on to win the Edgar Award for Best Critical / Biographical Work in 2016.