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

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Four authors — Lindqvist, Petrova, Vásquez, and Okafor — each have exactly one genre and binding, and no two share any of them. Match each author to their genre and binding from these clues: 1. Okafor is not the memoirist. 2. The poet is the author with the paperback. 3. Lindqvist is not the author with the spiral-bound edition. 4. The mystery writer is the author with the cloth-bound edition. 5. Petrova is not the memoirist. 6. Lindqvist is not the mystery writer. 7. The cookbook writer is the author with the hardback. 8. Okafor is not the cookbook writer. 9. Okafor is not the author with the cloth-bound edition.

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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 binding goes with “Petrova”? Answer with just the binding.

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