The Gold of the Scythians

Marina Evlianova, whose son Dmitry’s behavior was worrying her, turned to Astra Yeltsova, who handles private investigations. Suddenly he divorced his wife Zlata, quit his job at the bank, moved into a rented apartment, and decided to write a novel. Zlata, by every means, wanted to get her husband back and told her tall tales about him: supposedly he had become involved with some strange person in black who forced him to participate in ominous rituals at the cemetery… When Astra came to Zlata, she found her dead: the woman was strangled. On her chest lay a photograph—Dmitry and Zlata throwing a coin into a Roman fountain shaped like a bowl. Astra guessed that everything was due to that golden bowl, decorated with an image of a many-armed goddess from a Scythian burial mound, which had been kept in the Yevlanov family for many years…