 The Amelia Butterworth Mysteries by Anna Katharine Green is a detective fiction based on Amelia Buttersworth, a wealthy, single women with limited family has the free time to solve mysteries.This character has been referred to as an Honorary Male in "Feminism in Women's Detective Fiction" by Glenwood Irons, "They work seamlessly in a male world, occasionally adding the "frisson" of a woman in peril.These characters are anomalies...These two women detectives are clearly honorary males."