The White Maniac: A Doctor's Tale by Mary Fortune is the story of a young doctor who goes to a baron's house to treat him, only to find that everything inside and outside the house is dressed in white due to a great secret. Excerpt: "IN the year 1858 I had established a flourishing practice in London; a practice which I owed a considerable portion of, not to my ability, I am afraid, but to the fact that I occupied the singular position of a man professional, who was entirely independent of his profession."