.38.

It's as cold as they come. Impossible to trace. You don't have to worry about prints if you put a special tape on the trigger and the butt. Leave it noisy to scare the pain in the ass innocent bystanders away.

In all seriousness they seem to use a 22 caliber a lot. Bullet bounces around in the brain...almost always fatal.

The old sicilians used to be fond of the rope.