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An Unexplained Death: The True Story of a Body at the Belvedere

von Mikita Brottman

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Biography & Autobiography. History. True Crime. Nonfiction. HTML: This program is read by the author. An Unexplained Death is an obsessive investigation into a mysterious death at the Belvedere�??a once-grand hotel�??and a poignant, gripping meditation on suicide and voyeurism. "The poster is new. I notice it right away, taped to a utility pole. Beneath the word 'Missing,' printed in a bold, high-impact font, are two sepia-toned photographs of a man dressed in a bow tie and tux." Most people would keep walking. Maybe they'd pay a bit closer attention to the local news that evening. Mikita Brottman spent ten years sifting through the details of the missing man's life and disappearance, and his purported suicide by jumping from the roof of her own apartment building, the Belvedere. As Brottman delves into the murky circumstances surrounding Rey Rivera's death�??which begins to look more and more like a murder�??she contemplates the nature of and motives behind suicide, and uncovers a haunting pattern of guests at the Belvedere, when it was still a historic hotel, taking their own lives on the premises. Finally, she fearlessly takes us to the edge of her own morbid curiosity and asks us to consider our own darker impulses and obse… (mehr)

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The author spends 10 years researching and trying to solve, understand the death of Rey Rivera.. Listed as a suicide the author exlpores other thoughts on his cause of death. Well written, interesting writing style. A little different than many true crime books. (

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loraineo | Jan 13, 2024 |

Super dark and enthralling. Mikita Brottman investigates a mysterious death in her apartment building, while also referencing back to the former hotel's sordid past as a den of suicides and murders. Rey Rivera's death raises questions not only for his family, but for the media as well. This you successful married man, ran out of the house one day never to be seen again. When he was found over a week later, it was most perplexing. It was as if he did a running leap of the thirteenth floor and landed feet-first into the former pool. He clearly died on impact, but was it suicide or something else? Since the death occurred in Mikita's building she takes a massive interest in the case. Obsessively following it for over a decade. An Unexplained Death is part historical portrait of The Belvedere (the current apartment building and former luxury hotel), part memoir (at least of the author's neuroses, fears, and mental health), part look at suicide, and part investigation into Rey Rivera's death. There's a lot going on, but it all meshes really well together and creates a unique format is hard to put down. (

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ecataldi | Jan 10, 2019 |

I found this book to be fascinating; once I started reading I couldn't put it down. The heart of the book is the author's ten-year pursuit of the facts surrounding the death of a young man who apparently jumped or fell from the roof of a hotel, but the book also includes meanders into suicide generally, suicides in hotels, the typical way that missing persons or suspicious deaths are handled by the police, and the impossibility of knowing what is going on in another person's mind, even someone close. This is not a straightforward linear story, as other reviewers have noted, but for readers who like thoughtful writing and a little bit of quirkiness, I thought this was a wonderful book. (

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daanrd | Dec 15, 2018 |

Tall, handsome, and charismatic, newlywed Rey Rivera would seem to have had everything going for him. Yet the aspiring screenwriter is found dead after jumping (or was he pushed?) from the roof of the Belvidere, a former luxury hotel gone condo in Baltimore. Author Mikita Brottman, who lives in the Belvidere, becomes fascinated by the case and is determined to solve it, amateur detective-style, despite opposition from the police and key witnesses.

There's really not a whole lot to be said about the Rivera case, when it comes right down to it, so Brottman fills her book with tangents about unrelated suicides and jumping deaths, the corporate culture of Rivera's former employer (a publisher of dodgy financial newsletters), and even the endearing qualities of rats. If you like the wide-ranging digressive approach, you may enjoy this book. I, on the other hand, found it became something of a chore. It felt much longer than its 260 or so pages would indicate. (

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akblanchard | Nov 15, 2018 |

I agree with some of the other readers that this book felt discombobulated. It didn't flow very smoothly. It was like there were so many details and facts that the author wanted to include in the book that they were all thrown into the story. This is sad as I was looking forward to reading this book.

When it came to the main character, Rey, it was like I knew him but also didn't really know him at the same time. Just like his death in the beginning, Rey was a mystery to me. Ok, so people close to Rey did not think that he would commit suicide, so it must have been murder. Yet, on the other hand, others did believe that he could take his own life.

With the structure of the book and the fact that I lost interest in the story itself fairly early on; did not help the situation. After a while, I jumped ahead to the ending just so I could find out the truth. There was potential in the book but just missed the mark. (

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Biography & Autobiography. History. True Crime. Nonfiction. HTML:

This program is read by the author.

An Unexplained Death is an obsessive investigation into a mysterious death at the Belvedere�??a once-grand hotel�??and a poignant, gripping meditation on suicide and voyeurism.

"The poster is new. I notice it right away, taped to a utility pole. Beneath the word 'Missing,' printed in a bold, high-impact font, are two sepia-toned photographs of a man dressed in a bow tie and tux."

Most people would keep walking. Maybe they'd pay a bit closer attention to the local news that evening. Mikita Brottman spent ten years sifting through the details of the missing man's life and disappearance, and his purported suicide by jumping from the roof of her own apartment building, the Belvedere.

As Brottman delves into the murky circumstances surrounding Rey Rivera's death�??which begins to look more and more like a murder�??she contemplates the nature of and motives behind suicide, and uncovers a haunting pattern of guests at the Belvedere, when it was still a historic hotel, taking their own lives on the premises. Finally, she fearlessly takes us to the edge of her own morbid curiosity and asks us to consider our own darker impulses and obse

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