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