What is the author's style in The Cat Who Saw Red by Lilian Jackson Braun?

The language in the story is very informal and easy to understand. There are many of the characters in the story that talk differently than the other characters. This change in grammar and speech will indicate a characters personality traits. Robert Maus often pauses before he speaks and Dan Graham typically uses old cliches while he is talking and ends his phrases asking if the people he is talking to know what he means. There is a lot of dialog in the story and often times the author will identify the two people talking but then there won't be a dialog tag to go with the vast majority of the conversation. For this reason it will be important to pay attention to who is talking and not when the conversation switches from person to person so that it will be known who is speaking.