Scioly Assassination 68: Heroes and Villains

[Assassinator]

It is time to act. It is time to kill. My last two predecessors made careless mistakes. I am not going to be as foolhardy as they were. Heroes, villains - the two are interchangeable, but all must die.

Here are your rules:

1. The police officers will be the next seven people who send correct answers to the clue. Put in a bit of thought before posting. If you have not been around for awhile, it is less likely that you will be able to identify me.

2. There will be no "informants", but civilians may post.

3. People will die. However, there are some exceptions. I will not kill administrators or moderators. In return, I ask that they not reveal my identity.

4. Police officers may die, but a police officer may protect another police officer.

5. Once a police officer has made three incorrect accusations, he may not accuse or protect anyone.

6. The assassin will provide clues which plainly point to his next victim, and occasionally to himself.

7. The assassin will continue to post with his true account, and may provide hints there.

8. The assassin will write entertaining and mildly gruesome accounts of his kills.

9. When accusing someone of being Assasinator you must use the following template "I accuse (place name here) because (give reason here)." If you don't use this template when accusing the accusation won't count.

10. Once "killed" a user may not make any statements about the identity of the Assasinator.

11. Non officers or informants may post.

12. Each clue will last only one day, after which the Assassinator may kill.

13. If the assassinator does not reply in 8 days after all protects are made, each officer gets a free accusation. However that accusation must be made next time the user posts and cannot be stored as an extra one to use later

14. Each officer begins with one accusation. You will earn accusations as you protect correctly

15. The Assassinator wins after 15 incorrect accusations have been made, but the number needed to win goes down by one with each kill

15. The Assassinator has the right to ban players who have behaved badly in relation to the game

16. Upon review of The Revival, it has been determined that quizbowl is again banned from playing this round due to his behavior in #66

17. As requested by my appointer, Littleboy has been banned for harassing my predecessor and pretending to be me

18. The Assassinator reserves the right to add to these rules as he deems necessary.

And here is the clue:

An arthropod loved a man who wrote some dirty letters.
A man dated a woman sharing a name with Miss Havisham's charge, and eventually married her.
A woman named after an American state and a canine is feared by no one.

These authors are all known as having a hallmark writing technique. The next seven people to message me its name will be police officers.

[Littleboy]

I am not banned?

[quizbowl]

I am not banned?

17. As requested by my appointer, Littleboy has been banned for harassing my predecessor and pretending to be me

[EastStroudsburg13]

Seven officers? Hmm.

[space scientist]

I hope that the answer I sent to the assassin is correct (I want to be an officer.).

[Kokonilly]

I'm sorry to not be playing this round; it's looking to be a good game.
Good luck to all of the officers (whoever they may be)!

[aubrey048]

I figured out part of the clue. (Now for the rest!)
Edit: I've only got 2/3! DARN IT!

[AlphaTauri]

I just picked the easiest-looking part of the clue and went with it...it says all three of those authors shared a common writing technique, so I just picked the easiest author to figure out and looked for his/her writing style.

[aubrey048]

I compared the two I knew.

[paleonaps]

I'm not going to play this round.