A pensive man under an umbrella. Belgian theater poster for the comedy "Sous La Drache" ("Under the Spell") by P. Paul Max at the Olympia theater under the direction of Leon Coeckelbergh. Paul Max , born in Algiers in 1884, naturalized Belgian and died in Brussels in 1944 , is a Belgian journalist and writer, author of several crime novels often with amusing characters. As a writer for L'Étoile Belge and for the literary magazine Demain , he started a career as a playwright and novelist from 1913 onwards. He signed a work under the pseudonym MA Hychx.