Publisher's Synopsis
"Ishtar's Star" - the golden piece of jewelry decorated with lazurite, once stolen from Babylon's ruins, - can fulfill the wishes of its owner, but may destroy the owner if the goddess Ishtar is angry. Nelly Rakitina, daughter of the famous professor Rakitin, was killed. She was found in own flat, absolutely nude! Some her private things disappeared the day before. Detective-medium Astra Eltsova is going to solve mysterious events around the Rakitin family. Professor Rakitin was married for the third time to a very young woman - younger than his own children! His former wife died suddenly... Professor Rakitin explores the history of ancient Babylon, and Astra realized that the circumstances of his daughter's death are similar to Sumerian myth about descend of the goddess Ishtar into the Underworld. It was found that Nelly's ancient jewel "Ishtar's Star" disappeared too. Does the killer stage the legend about Babylon's whore in our time really?!
