The Long Goodbye
Who is Sylvia Lennox from The Long Goodbye and what is their importance?
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Sylvia Lennox is Terry's former wife. Over the course of the novel, the couple remarries. Sylvia is promiscuous and sleeps with a number of different men. When she is murdered early in the novel, Terry runs away because he believes that he will be blamed for her death.
The Long Goodbye