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

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

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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 “Okafor”? Answer with just the genre.

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