The Five Shelves: Vásquez, Okafor, Moreau, Lindqvist, and Tanaka
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Five authors — Vásquez, Okafor, Moreau, Lindqvist, and Tanaka — each have exactly one binding, genre, and cover colour, and no two share any of them. Match each author to their binding, genre, and cover colour from these clues:
1. Lindqvist is not the author with the hardback.
2. Lindqvist is not the author with the cloth-bound edition.
3. The mystery writer is the author with the red cover.
4. Moreau is not the mystery writer.
5. The historian is the author with the white cover.
6. The author with the hardback is the author with the green cover.
7. Okafor is not the author with the gold cover.
8. The author with the hardback is the cookbook writer.
9. Moreau is not the cookbook writer.
10. Okafor is not the cookbook writer.
11. Okafor is not the historian.
12. The author with the spiral-bound edition is the author with the gold cover.
13. Vásquez is not the author with the green cover.
14. The author with the leather-bound edition is the author with the red cover.
15. Moreau is not the historian.
16. The author with the boxed set is the memoirist.
17. Okafor is not the mystery writer.
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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 genre goes with “Moreau”? Answer with just the genre.
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