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

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Four authors — Lindqvist, Vásquez, Tanaka, and Moreau — each have exactly one cover colour, genre, and bookmark, and no two share any of them. Match each author to their cover colour, genre, and bookmark from these clues: 1. Vásquez is not the author with the white cover. 2. The author with the white cover is the author whose book holds a receipt. 3. Tanaka is not the author with the gold cover. 4. The author with the green cover is the mystery writer. 5. Tanaka is not the historian. 6. The author with the gold cover is the poet. 7. Vásquez is not the author whose book holds a ticket stub. 8. Lindqvist is not the historian. 9. Vásquez is not the poet. 10. The memoirist is the author whose book holds a ticket stub. 11. The author with the gold cover is the author whose book holds a ribbon bookmark.

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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 “Lindqvist”? Answer with just the bookmark.

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