John Bathgate has fostered the ambition to write during a varied lifetime that took him from an unwilling school-leaver to a major role in the project management of one of Britain`...view moreJohn Bathgate has fostered the ambition to write during a varied lifetime that took him from an unwilling school-leaver to a major role in the project management of one of Britain`s architectural masterpieces. Now retired, living in Portsmouth with his wife, John presents his first novel, based fictionally in his birthplace, Edinburgh, on a series of crimes that shocked Scotland and the world in mid twentieth century. The follow-up novel is already in preparation.view less