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The Five Shelves: Petrova, Vásquez, Tanaka, Moreau, and Okafor

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Five authors — Petrova, Vásquez, Tanaka, Moreau, and Okafor — each have exactly one bookmark, binding, genre, and cover colour, and no two share any of them. Match each author to their bookmark, binding, genre, and cover colour from these clues: 1. Tanaka is not the cookbook writer. 2. The author with the cloth-bound edition is the historian. 3. Vásquez is not the author with the gold cover. 4. The author whose book holds a pressed leaf is the author with the paperback. 5. The author with the spiral-bound edition is the cookbook writer. 6. The historian is the author with the gold cover. 7. The author whose book holds a receipt is the historian. 8. Moreau is not the author with the hardback. 9. The author whose book holds a feather is the memoirist. 10. Tanaka is not the author whose book holds a receipt. 11. Tanaka is not the memoirist. 12. Moreau is not the author with the spiral-bound edition. 13. Vásquez is not the author with the spiral-bound edition. 14. Okafor is not the author whose book holds a postcard. 15. The author with the leather-bound edition is the science-fiction writer. 16. The memoirist is the author with the red cover. 17. The science-fiction writer is the author with the green cover. 18. The author whose book holds a postcard is the cookbook writer. 19. Vásquez is not the memoirist. 20. Tanaka is not the author whose book holds a ribbon bookmark. 21. The mystery writer is the author with the black cover.

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In the final matching, which cover colour goes with “Vásquez”? Answer with just the cover colour.

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