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

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

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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 genre goes with “Moreau”? Answer with just the genre.

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