 My name is Jeff Regan. I get ten a day in expenses from a detective bureau run by a guy named Lyon Anthony J. Lyon They call me the lion's eye With Jack Webb as Jeff Regan Investigator stand by for hard-boiled action and mystery and thrilling adventure in tonight's story of the house by the sea This is the way it started I Walked in the office about 11 o'clock that morning. It was a nice warm day, and I didn't have much on my mind That's the trouble with nice days You take a couple of easy breaths open somebody's door, and it's just like peeling a wrapper off an atomic bomb The lion was in his den sitting behind his desk He couldn't tell where he left off and the desk began. He was talking to a girl with a flock of black hair He was the kind you see driving a Cadillac convertible down Sunset Boulevard on hot Sunday afternoons No wonder the lion's cigar was out was well on both ends Well, well come in Regan come in. I was just about to call you but now that you're here. It makes things simpler Miss Carmen. This is mr. Regan. How do you do mr. Regan? Mr. Lyon tells me you're just the man I want you said the same thing to a mortician last week He is the man I want mr. Lyon. Well, that's fine miss carbon. I knew you'd be pleased I'm very proud of Jeffrey as long as I'm in the cast how about a look at the script, huh? Miss Carmen is associated with the famous psychic consultant Prince Carol. I helped the prince look into people's minds Well, it ought to be real fun if all your customers are under sex You don't believe in thought transference, Mr. Regan. For you I Said I helped the prince Prince Carol sent Miss Carmen to retain an operator Jeffrey very delicate matter and I'm placing the entire case in your hand Why didn't he come himself? Do you disapprove of me? I just want to know what's what? Prince Carol never appears in public. He prefers to spend his time in meditation Yeah, I handle all of his outside contact so Jeffrey You just drive on out to Prince Carol's home in Oceantown with Miss Carmen and speak to the prince What kind of a retainer did he send? How much did you get now see here Regan? We don't discuss finances in front of client. Oh, stop it. Will you this is another blind spot? You don't know what it's all about all you know Is she lost in here with a check and you'd tell your grandmother were glue factory for two bucks How do I know I won't wind up being a patchy again. Is there any way I can reassure you buy me a battleship Jeffrey Have I ever involved you in anything that I wouldn't undertake myself? Have I ever knowingly imperiled your life? Yeah Jeffrey come on lady. What's it all about you work for the guy? Well, I really don't know He was excited this morning calls me in gave me this address and tell me to make arrangements He must have told you something he never tells me anything as you say I I just work for Well All right, I'm hired good good now call me Jeffrey. Call me if you run into any trouble Well, I asked her how about lunch. She said no I asked her about dinner She said something that meant no so I gave up. You know, it's like that sometimes The flags up the meter is ticking and you're not getting anywhere But from a couple of things she told me I got the idea She was doing more than just helping the Prince read mine Well, his place turned out to be a good hour from downtown Los Angeles up 101 Was a couple of stories of glass and concrete leaning out over the ocean was high and dry and quiet up there You got a feeling you should be hearing things and feeling things when you look down and saw that water banging around the bottom of the cliff She unlocked the door and a guy in a white turban and some pants that looked like oversized diapers and a pair of tennis shoes We're standing there. He had a big curved knife hanging around his waist and he put his hand on it when he saw me Right this way. Mr. Regan. Who's he the butcher? Oh, that's telly. He works for the Prince man servant. He's from India Yeah, I bet the Indians are glad to get rid of him Telly's harmless tongueless, and he doesn't hear I like you Come in come in. Tell me my dear. You'll return with spoils. Welcome sir. Welcome. Mr. Regan This is Prince Carol Regan. Oh, the lion's eye I've heard of you. Mr. Regan. I'm honored sit down That'll be all there now Charming girl. She handle all your outside contact most efficiently Except of course for matters that I must handle personally. What kind of matters? I'm in trouble. Mr. Regan, and I beg your assistance. That's all paid for correct But there's a personal bonus in this for you why because sir I want you to save my life. You look healthy to me. I am healthy. Let me assure you But my life has been threatened. Well, I'd come under police business. Wouldn't it normally? Didn't miss Carmen explained that this was a delicate matter. Yeah, she did. Why didn't she call the police? I? Hardly in a position to ask the police for assistance. Mr. Regan. It is a delicate matter Outside it says you're a mind reader. All right. What am I thinking now? I'm a charlatan a faker and that I'm trying to hide something from him that catch you the cigar It's been a very lucrative arrangement for the most part and very satisfactory Except of course for the annoyance of having my life threatened. Who's the guy? It would be of no consequence if it were a man It's a lady mr. Regan a very beautiful and lovely creature And she'd like nothing better than to see my carcass go out with the tide Why does she want to kill you matter of confidence? Suffice it to say that she is thoroughly capable of doing just that how do you know? One she is a vatic ill-tempered ruthless To she called me this morning and told me what she intended to do She's giving you a chance to reach for your gun to reach for you mr. Regan. What do you want me to do? I feel the entire matter could be settled amicably if you were to call on her Inform her that you are my personal bodyguard and that you are here to protect my life You think she'd go for that and positive How long you've been blackmailing her? What your racket might last six months or a year, but not long enough to pay for a place like this the answer is blackmailing it Okay, okay, okay. I should have told you how do you do it? I can slip me into a trance. They spell a family secret it do I push a buck that way It's nice to what the minds read I read them 25 bucks a parade and shake down the guys got a heat You put the squeeze on her. She's an actress. She was in on a deal at the studio She wouldn't shake but first I just told her I had a larger fee then they come out with it cold turkey She said she'd blow your head off. Yeah, she's the kind I Went wrong on this one. I'm in a spot. Who is she? Grace Nichols movie actress ever heard of her redhead makes you want to go home and kick your wife downstairs If you got one that good better But she means this business about bumping me and I won't look good dead All right, where she left over in the palisades his address You going over there now. Yeah, be careful. She isn't gunning for me. That isn't what I mean There's a skinny boy there. He's nasty. No callers name of Tim Rogers. I'll remember that I hope you can talk her out of it and sweatin. I Don't want to shake her down. I just want to get a little sleep at night I Left him sitting there scratching his bald head under his turban. He looked about as happy as a guy who just ate a Vaseline sandwich Well, Grace's place was too big for a marble game and too small for football I think I remember reading something about how she got it from her third husband There was a big wire fence all around it and a sign every 15 or 20 feet telling you not to trespass So I parked my car outside the driveway and walked up to the front door a guy in a chauffeur's uniform was standing Yeah, he looked like a razor blade with arms He gave me the fish eye and blew smoke in my face and kind of nudged me with his shoulder Move on pilgrim. No handouts here. I came to see Grace Nichols. Yeah, I got business with her. Yeah So tell her I'm here blow you always like this or do you miss lunch today? I don't know who you are pilgrim, but I don't like you. They didn't I know you there's something about a guy on a lineup Yeah, he memorizes real easy Copper investigator private a city. I don't care. You all smell the same. This isn't hunting season You always carry a 38 does it show maybe you got a broken rib real funny guy I'm at all kinds of funny guys drift. I said I wanted to see her and I said she wasn't in all right I'll tell you once more. I got business with it. So do a couple of hundred other guys watch dog Now you're getting smart you weren't kind of a crack is that I want to see her I'm gonna see your trick. I learned a long time ago Shoot a guy in the knee and he'll never walk straight again. You ever done it. Oh, yeah That's how I learned That's what I learned, baby. I might have to get a new show. You're looking for a job. I Already got one lady. Tell me he's going to be off me upset when he finds out what happened to him And someone works for me. They have to be perfect want his job. It wouldn't let me in I'll let you in You do that kind of thing often when I have to I Suppose you have a name It's Regan. I'm a private investigator. All right, Mr. Regan. You've ruined a perfectly good show friend bodyguard And you're in my house. What have we got to talk about guy named Karu the print? Must we talk about him? He thinks you're dangerous stuff So do a lot of people Tell me Mr. Regan. What do you think about what? Me right now or when I'm a couple feet away right now Look remember I just got here. I know You must have a first name. What is it? Jeff Jeff will get along. It's in the card Pretty fast deal. I like it this way fast might be a bum-deck Never mind Deal, that's the bell how much time between rounds. Well, you know me better Hello Yeah Yes, right here, you know a man named lion Jeff He seems to be roaring give it to me. Yeah Well, how do you figure it? Don't be smart. Who's the demo answer the phone our client's friend? Did you have something to say or is this the day you turn scout master? I'm busy Don't tell me you're passing up a fee Nothing How'd you know I was here I've already started something You look worried Jeff anything I can do I'm called off giving you out of a job. I got one remember you put my bodyguard out of commission You owe me something well Tim boy. He'll come around and I want him any more. I want you I Get you a drink we can talk about it Carol told me that Tim was a pretty good boy. You can fill his shoes Come here and Get your drink. Tell me about nine o'clock tonight We get dark. I got a new drink. I think you'll like it probably would the place above Malibu We could have dinner listen to some music. I want to be with you Jeff that deals fast again. I don't care I don't care. I just decided to make Jeff I'm gonna like being with you I'm gonna like it a lot Well, she didn't want me to go but I was thinking about the prince and the way everything looked I Told her I'd see her that night I'm just climbing into my car when Tim Rogers her ex number one boy stepped out from the gate I waited for him to walk over You're pretty good with your women Regan You look lonely to me somebody stole your popsicle bum joke Regan I've been waiting to talk to you. You were so quiet in the house. I didn't want to make any noise any better here You came out champ this afternoon But you won't even make the prelims next time you got something to say stay away from her You're shaking you need a drink stay away from a Regan. I've been with her too long No, not too long to take the bounce from a two-bit gum he'll goodbye. I'm not finished cat That's your version. I get your foot off that running board punker. I'll take it with me I left him standing in the middle of the driveway if I'd waited another minute he'd have been crying I Stopped off and had some barbecued ribs of the drive in on Sunset I was just getting dark when I got to my place. I had company was Velma Carmen Prince Cairo's right-hand man She was sitting on the edge of my sofa her back was as stiff as a filing cabinet And there was a little ring of whiter on her lip. She looked like she'd just been measured for a coffin It was a 25 automatic sitting in her lap. I've been waiting for you, Mr. Week. I Have to tell you to let me in. Yeah It's very nice. I told him I was associated with one of your clients Yes, I told him I was associated with Ryan Did you know the Prince Cairo with my husband since when oh a long time now a long time not many people know that That what you came here to tell me no I Came to tell you that you don't have to worry anymore None of us have to worry anymore. You mean you're calling me off the case. That's it That's exactly it. I'm calling you off the case Yeah, well, I've already been called off my office for me when I was over her house Yeah Then it was about her. Yeah Well, and we don't have to worry anymore do no She's very pretty isn't she? I've seen you many times. I think she's quite pretty. I could hardly blame the Prince What's hardly blaming them at all? What are you getting at? Well, it's all the others were pretty too. What'd you get that gun? Let me see it, huh? Oh, yeah, I brought it here so I could show it to you I paid $30 for it. I paid $30. I'd imagine the air will be cleaner in there. Don't you are you talking about? I mean, it's really very humane. I come It's just like sitting down and never waking up. I've read all about it You just walk in and sit down and if you don't try to hold your breath You've met murder is the fullness region. Do I make a good murderer? Do I make a good? Will you You're trying to tell me you killed him. That's why I came here I shot him I walked up behind you when I put the gun up close to his back and pulled the trigger He don't make such a great deal of noise stupid I left him sitting there in his house by the sea and he looked very much alive Honey, honey Me We're listening to the story of the house by the sea tonight's adventure with jeff reagan investigator They're still available for qualified nurses. Yes, the army nurse corps reserves still has commissions available If you are a graduate registered nurse between the ages of 21 and 45 You may be eligible for a commission in the army nurse corps section of the regular officers reserve To find out if you do qualify for a commission in the army nurse corps reserve Apply to the adjutant general, washington dc And now back to the story of the house by the sea and jeff reagan investigator Well after she got through she settled down to a slow even kind of a giggle. It started somewhere around her shoelaces and didn't get past her knees It was one of those things that gives you a feeling like Somebody's standing in back of you with a red hot iron ready to press your pants before you get them off But she wasn't gonna do any more talking So I went downstairs and brought back a doctor friend of mine named sammy wing He brought his little black bag with him and gave her a shot or something She wilted like last night's orchid and went to sleep on my couch sammy began talking some playmate Wish I'd have been here for the party I had four appendectomies and one broken leg today so they're alive. Why was she You know her better than me. No, she's gonna be all right. Well, she wake up in five or six hours I want some water and then what? She might ask you what happened or it might start all over again, whatever it was By the way, what was it? Well, I found her here when I got home I should find something like this. She said she killed an ex-client of mine. Oh, maybe I'm lucky at that What does all the past tense mean? That was called off the king. Oh nice It's all clean. No clients to protect Is there a corpse someplace? I don't know sammy Call the police they find out and then you and me can go out and get a drink She said she used this gun smell it sammy. It hasn't been fired safety catcher still on She's pretty and she's nice and I bet she looks like a million bucks in a bathing suit But if I'd have met her within the last three hours at a run for help call the police Is that professional? This is a cute hysteria the kind that pops off guns and pops off people and there's a lot of things They can't remember later on call the police. What about the gun or that gun call the coroner while you're at it Tell him to go out there with some DOA forms. He'll use them or you stay here with it like it back Corpse hunt. That's an idea Hitler had an idea the odds were against them. You got about as much chance as a three-legged horse in the kentucky derby She's bit somebody and she's told you about it. I want to make sure What do they do when a private eye walks in and messes up an ice cream murder sammy? Well, you stay Had any bourbon around here? Yeah, okay. Take your time Maybe both of us will get our pictures in the paper I left him with a kind of a soft smile on his face like he had some inside information on tuzi's winner at del mar Well, it was 9 30 by the time I got there and it was dark enough to give a ghost a creeps It was different too. Maybe it was a fog I used that ring of keys I'd taken from her purse Smell dry and funny inside. It was real quiet like somebody was waiting for the world to fall apart I clicked on my flashlight and I walked down the long hall to his office. He was there just like she said There were three holes in the front of his shirt, but it wasn't the laundry's fault I spotted the 38 on the floor by his hand. I broke it from three cartridges came on Was the right gun for the job. It was pretty messed up While I was standing there trying to figure velma karman's story the lights came on A fat man wearing a sheriff's star was standing by the sweat It was a taller man and a brown overcoat next to him. They both looked like they just finished dinner scavenger hot son You don't talk to me Ain't much fun to say is that cat? Guess not Well, son, it looks like you're gonna be calling me names. What do you like best killer murder or slayer The paper's you slayer a lot. I don't like any of them And a breezy for a hot boy, ain't you I'm giving me a name. It's reagan. I'm a private detective. It's reagan the private detective camp. Yeah Got a card or something with you, sir Yeah He's right with international Lion's still there. Yeah, who's that an old bum I used to know Regan, why do you go around killing people the lion will be mad? Look, this is a fix Now, why do you want to say a thing like that? Somebody tip you phone call a little while ago. Huh funny kind of a voice a whisper Said we'd find a stiff up here, but didn't say we'd find you You're extra. Look, I just came here to see what it was all about. Same thing. We did Only we come up with a suspect in the corpse. No cop could ask for anything better Charlie better call a coroner Ocean town just a small place reagan only me and jolly around We borrow from the county when we get something like this I can find you a real answer in an hour. You let me and charlie worry about that You look good enough for the time being All right, son, let's go I had as much chance as an elephant in the tea room and if those two locked me up and booked me So I leaned back into his gun and spun around and knocked his wrist down The trigger for that time I clicked the light switch and was out the door I didn't run for my car. I cut across the driveway and doubled back up the hill I can hear him yelling and shooting out in the dark I Hailed a cab about five blocks away and he took me to the place above Malibu I found her in a booth with a piano player She was wearing one of those black strapless things and it was worrying a couple of ball-headed guys sitting at the bar You're late, sir We said nine o'clock I had three drinks all on you. I mean you get mad. Are you gonna catch up? How long you been here You sound like you're out of the mood I thought we were gonna look at the stars together. How long you've been here Looks nine o'clock. Looks matter. I've been working tonight. Well, let's after hours now Tell me how you like my new dress. It's the right color with a wrong cut for a funeral I haven't read the obituaries today. It'll be in tomorrow's paper only. It'll make the front page Have a drink. Let's wait tomorrow. Your friend was killed tonight What friend caro? He was no friend of mine. I told you that so did he Car smash up, but did he fall off his house 38? We didn't talk about him this afternoon. Let's not start now. Look two cops in ocean town are kind of crowding me They think i'm gonna take a good picture. Is that why you're late? It's a murder rap lady We should have had dinner together. They'll be knocking down your door in the morning Why darling because you threatened to kill him because he hired me to call you off Oh, wait a minute. Jeff. You've been having fun out there now. Who told you that? Why'd you think you sent me over today to sell magazines? I never found out you were called off I suppose he hired you to scare me Jeff we're old friends now. I can tell you a family secret I know about him blackmailing you and that puts you ahead of me for the cops. Did you do it? I don't know did you What he told you don't sound right. What does sound right? I went to him one day and put him in a trance and he I use coach Found out what he was doing and how I was doing it till I turned the table It was good clean fun, but expensive for him. You've been draining him. I thought that's why you came today That's why I had Timmy around Well, if some of this is beginning to make change if he was your meal ticket, then you got an alibi I don't feel like stars anymore Jeff Let's go to my place and talk On the way over she didn't have much to say and I couldn't think of anything I was all too mixed up if she'd really been shaking him down and she figured out and the girl back in my apartment figured in I mean, she had the wrong gun Then there was a little business that I'd have to explain with the ocean town cops Well, when we turned in the driveway, I stopped figuring kim rogers the man with the guns was there standing on the porch Oh gorgeous. I've been waiting to see you. You're home late. I thought I fired you still tramping with this tramp, huh? I thought you'd be sick of him by now for once. I'm glad to see you tim boy. That sounds cozy, but I don't want to see you I know where your 38 is. You're wrong. It's earth 38 And it's got her prints on it. Jeff. He's making it look bad for me. Ask me. Ask him what he's doing here When you just in for a showdown angel your tag for his murder. They'll want you I fixed it good I can fix it so you can get away. Oh friend of mine shutting off at petro Four o'clock to go all over the world If all of this is straight, I'm in a spot relax. This guy never did anything right. Tell me how I'm wrong All right that tip to the ocean town cops was wrong trying to pile up a scare on me was wrong killing kaver was wrong and this clinches it Yeah Well, that's where you're twisted pilgrim I got a warrant out for you right now Plugging a murder suspect is something they'll thank me for you said her prints were on that gun They'll find that out in the morning and how was I don't know just happening here on the radio They were looking for you tonight. I see you I plug you everybody You'll be sorry, but it'll be man slaughter and suspended I worked at once in Toledo. What are you saying? Do I plug him and meet you somewhere in two weeks? Let me have a smoke Let me think it over sure She'll go ahead All the guns empty now I carry this for three years I never used it. He deserved to die didn't he? Didn't he regain didn't he? I don't know lady. You knew him better Gun wound like red thread in the Levi factory Grace Nichols had been putting the shake on the prince He got tired of it and called me in and told me his phony stories So he'd have a good self-defense angle when he finally got around to shooting her some afternoon He had tim planted there to keep me from really seeing oh, it was a nice idea only I bounced tim and got inside And then tim made a phone call and the lion jerked me before I had a chance to compare notes with her I I guessed him went kind of crazy seeing how well we got along together and he figured grace would do anything if she was wanted for murder So he killed the prince and made her the patsy with those fingerprints. She'd handled the gun before us and But then I had my caller Velma Carmen the prince's wife She went kind of crazy too when she walked in in front of him dead It took three doctors a couple of weeks to tell her what really happened When I told it all of the lion he was mad at first, but then he saw Grace Nichols picture in the paper He asked just one question What was I doing at Grace's place all afternoon? I didn't even bother to answer It's Herbert as Anthony J lion It's CBS same time next week for hard-boiled action and mystery with Jeff Regan investigator Written by E. 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