The Five Shelves: Moreau, Tanaka, Petrova, Vásquez, and Lindqvist
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Five authors — Moreau, Tanaka, Petrova, Vásquez, and Lindqvist — each have exactly one cover colour, genre, bookmark, and binding, and no two share any of them. Match each author to their cover colour, genre, bookmark, and binding from these clues:
1. The author with the black cover is the author whose book holds a receipt.
2. The author with the blue cover is the author with the boxed set.
3. The author whose book holds a postcard is the author with the paperback.
4. Moreau is not the mystery writer.
5. Lindqvist is not the historian.
6. Tanaka is not the author whose book holds a ribbon bookmark.
7. Vásquez is not the historian.
8. The historian is the author whose book holds a ticket stub.
9. Tanaka is not the author with the black cover.
10. Moreau is not the author with the paperback.
11. The poet is the author with the cloth-bound edition.
12. The mystery writer is the author whose book holds a ribbon bookmark.
13. Lindqvist is not the author whose book holds a ribbon bookmark.
14. Tanaka is not the author with the boxed set.
15. Tanaka is not the author with the gold cover.
16. Moreau is not the author whose book holds a ticket stub.
17. The author with the white cover is the mystery writer.
18. The author with the gold cover is the memoirist.
19. The author whose book holds a receipt is the author with the hardback.
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Solution
Commit an attempt to unseal the proof. Write your answer — right or wrong, thinking it through is the point.
In the final matching, which binding goes with “Petrova”? Answer with just the binding.
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