The Four Shelves: Lindqvist, Moreau, Vásquez, and Petrova

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Four authors — Lindqvist, Moreau, Vásquez, and Petrova — each have exactly one cover colour and bookmark, and no two share any of them. Match each author to their cover colour and bookmark from these clues: 1. The author with the red cover is the author whose book holds a ticket stub. 2. Petrova is not the author whose book holds a ticket stub. 3. Vásquez is not the author with the gold cover. 4. The author with the blue cover is the author whose book holds a ribbon bookmark. 5. The author with the gold cover is the author whose book holds a pressed leaf. 6. Vásquez is not the author whose book holds a ticket stub. 7. Petrova is not the author with the gold cover. 8. Petrova is not the author whose book holds a feather. 9. Lindqvist is not the author whose book holds a pressed leaf.

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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 “Vásquez”? Answer with just the bookmark.

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