This work covers some eccentric details about the North-East's premier city. This journey into Aberdeen's past is crammed with extraordinary stories about the people, events and places that have played a part in its history over the centuries and which have left their mark in the city's collective memory. It tells of: the two great illusionists, Dr Walford Bodie and John Anderson; the collector, George Taffy Davidson; the three generations of Cocky Hunters; and bric-a-brac dealers extraordinaire, as well as a host of others. It also explains the significance of some of Aberdeen's well-known and lesser-known buildings and monuments: we discover the true significance of Scarty's monument (a sewer ventilator), the various uses to which the market cross has been put (from execution ground to post office) and the story of the murder commemorated by Downie's Cairn.