The Gift of Gags

Here’s something I didn’t know, and I suspect most Rap Sheet readers are equally in the dark. According to The Gumshoe Site, the late comedienne Phyllis Diller not only “wrote four best-selling funny books, including Housekeeping Hints and The Joys of Aging and How to Avoid Them,” but also “8 short stories for Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, whose [June] 1990 issue featured her on its cover.”