Sex, Lies, and Handwriting: A Top Expert Reveals the Secrets Hidden in Your Handwriting (Paperback)

by Michelle Dresbold (Author), James Kwalwasser (Contributor)
Key Phrases: mad doctors, resentment strokes, explosive dots, Jack the Ripper, Patsy Ramsey, New York (more...)

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Product Description
Have you ever looked at someone and thought:

He looks honest.

She seems friendly.

He doesn't look like a serial killer.

Are you always right?

Looks can be deceiving, but handwriting never lies. Handwriting profiling is an amazingly accurate tool for assessing how people think, feel, and act. In fact, handwriting profiling is so accurate that the FBI, the CIA, and the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad use it to build detailed psychological profiles of some of the world's most dangerous individuals. And thousands of major corporations use handwriting profiling to help them make the right hiring decisions.

Handwriting expert Michelle Dresbold -- the only civilian to be invited to the United States Secret Service's Advanced Document Examination training program -- draws on her extensive experience helping law enforcement agencies around the country on cases involving kidnapping, arson, forgery, murder, embezzlement, and stalking to take us inside the mysterious world of crossed t's and dotted i's.

In Sex, Lies, and Handwriting, Dresbold explains how a single sentence can provide insight into a person's background, psychology, and behavior. Throughout the book, Dresbold explores the handwriting of sly politicians, convicted criminals, notorious killers, suspected cheats, and ordinary people who've written to Dresbold's "The Handwriting Doctor" column for help. She shows you how to identify the signs of a dirty rotten scoundrel and a lying, cheating, backstabbing lover. And she introduces you to some of the most dangerous traits in handwriting, including weapon-shaped letters, "shark's teeth," "club strokes," and "felon's claws." (When you see these traits in someone's script, she says, "it's time to stop reading and start running!")

Dresbold also explains how criminals are tracked through handwritten clues and what spouses, friends, or employees might be hiding in their script.

Finally, Dresbold re-examines the handwriting evidence in several notorious unsolved cases. She uncovers fascinating clues that reveal the secret side of Lizzie Borden, acquitted of the ax murder of her parents in 1893's "trial of the century." Dresbold also reveals astonishing details about the author of the JonBenÉt Ramsey ransom note, and she presents startling new evidence that exposes the real Jack the Ripper (contrary to popular theories, he wasn't a prince or a painter after all).

Sex, Lies, and Handwriting will have you paying a bit more attention to your -- and everyone else's -- penmanship.

About the Author
Michelle Dresbold, a graduate of the United States Secret Service's Advanced Document Examination training program, is considered one of the top experts in the nation on handwriting identification, personality profiling, and threat analysis. She consults to private attorneys, police departments, and prosecutors throughout the United States. Dresbold writes a syndicated column, "The Handwriting Doctor." She is also an accomplished artist. She lives in Pittsburgh, PA.

For more information visit www.michelledresbold.com

James Kwalwasser is the cocreator and editor of "The Handwriting Doctor" syndicated column. He lives in Pittsburgh, PA.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Free Press; Reprint edition (July 22, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0743288106
• ISBN-13: 978-0743288101
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (43 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #29,875 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating--and fun!, December 20, 2006

By	Frederic B. Sargent - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Sex, Lies, and Handwriting: A Top Expert Reveals the Secrets Hidden in Your Handwriting (Hardcover)

This is a cleverly constructed, highly entertaining book that teaches us what our handwriting style reveals about ourselves and others, including many notables from Jack the Ripper to Elvis Presley to whoever wrote the JonBenet Ramsey ransom note. It is an easy read that has made it around our office quickly and led to some fun-filled discissions about each other's handwritten notes. In a way it reminds us of the popular science we know about body language, although handwriting seems to tell us so much more. Dresbold is an "expert" on this subject who, characteristic of the best of those who are tops in their field, can present it in a way that is understandable and enjoyable for a wide audience. Highly recommended.

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book!!, December 20, 2006

By	K. Cosgrove - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Sex, Lies, and Handwriting: A Top Expert Reveals the Secrets Hidden in Your Handwriting (Hardcover)

This is a fascinating book, and well researched. Michelle Dresbold has written a great book on handwriting analysis that's interesting as well as entertaining. I especially enjoyed the examples of handwriting and the different personality characteristic that were listed. If you're the type of person who's curious about human psychology, you'll find this book intriguing.

19 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars 3 1/2 STARS- Just barely falling short of 4 stars!, December 19, 2006

By	Deborah K. Dobbins "Five By Five" (Indianapolis, IN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sex, Lies, and Handwriting: A Top Expert Reveals the Secrets Hidden in Your Handwriting (Hardcover)

If you're new to handwriting analysis this may be too much all at once. Otherwise for advanced or intermediate analysts, this is an interesting read. It was nice to see a HW book that listed some of the nastier traits that many "G" rated beginner HW books omit. I really enjoyed the analysis of the Ramsey ranson note (and will never look at that case the same way again). While the Jack the Ripper analysis was entretaining, I would like to have seen the Lusk letter compared to other samples of Tumblety's handwriting, and preferable ones closer to the date of the whitechapel murders. There are samples still in existance at the Manx Museum.

I will give this book three and one half stars out of a possible five, falling just short of four stars, for some extra frills that could have been edited out and for not enough information given on forgeries. This is still an excellent book that I would recommend to serious HW analysts... I will be keeping it in my personal reference library!