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