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That's actually one fascinating thing I've discovered thanks to having an e-reader and old public domain books - English has not really changed at all in the last 100 years or so.
Even a lot of the slang words are the same, a lot of them were originally coined in the 1920s.
But I think the reason that they use period costumes and such for her novels is that though they were set in the year she wrote it in (from 1920 to 1970s), her main characters never really aged, with the notable exception of Tommy and Tuppence.
Hercule Poirot was very old when he was introduced, Miss Marple, too. Yet 50 years later he's still alive, and so was she 40 years later.
It's kind of strange, especially in the Marple books, you saw her describe how England had changed over the years, but she's always an old lady.
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