About the book: year / Two prospectors - Barjin and Holt, over weeks of painstaking work, amassed a fortune from rare metals in the Belt of Stars. But they come across an asteroid where, according to the legends of meteorite miners, the treasure of the famous former space pirate John Haddon is hidden, and they decide to find it... The story was first and only published in the magazine "Thrilling wonder stories" in October 1940, and was subsequently not republished anywhere, including in English-language collections. The original title of the story is "Murder asteroid"".