The Perfect Alibi

With his elbow, he moved a coffee cup threatening the laminated subway map and planted the first pin at Shinjuku’s west exit. 9:52 p.m. The second went onto a photocopied street map lower on the board: the service staircase where Masaru Ibuki had been found with a broken neck. 10:04 p.m., according to the call from the taxi driver who discovered the body.

He confesses to a murder he remembers. The victim is alive.