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I am looking for a good mystery scenario from 1e, for a one-off with 2e. Really liked Old Bones and Skin from Bree. Anything similar that you can recommend?

Strange Men, Strange Roads from the Bree book for a murder mystery?

The Company of the Wain from Ruins in the North offers a mystery to unpick too.

Kinstrife & Dark Tidings from Tales from Wilderland could work too, begins with an investigation.

Of Hammers & Anvils from The Laughter of Dragons might work too, investigation focused.

Thx Harlath!

The tie in between the first two scenarios of Bree could be improved. Especially the second need a better set up.

Mallor could have been the ranger that put Timeas on the right path thirty years ago, thus getting him away from Gorlancs’s gang. This is known to Haleth, who can inform the players.

Perhaps foreshadow Gorlanc and the mystic ring they found, now presumed missing, in Old Bones through Haleth. The evil ring was lost when the rangers drove away the gang.

Haleth could show up again in the end of Old Bones and hint that Mallor usually hangs out around The Forsaken Inn and knows more about Timeas’ murky past. That will give a clearer connection, IMO. Also she could be heading north to investigate rumours about an evil man that everybody thought were dead having returned (Gorlanc), also asking if the players have seen a caravan, as Mallor was looking after one, for some reason.

Also, in Old Bones, perhaps finding an old amulet with Gorlanc’s rune in Timeas’ belongings as well as on Grór.

Other ideas?

PS the hunt and assault on Gorlanc’s stronghold will need to be included as well as the finale, no way the players will accept a solution off screen…

This is not such a direct reply to the OP. As they are seeds rather than scenarios.
But

(a) the position of John Ferney (p184 of Core book) as a person who has become a con man and crooked horse trader, losing his family's good name. Why and How?
(b) Oswald Breeker (p186) also has a backstory where both his wife and his only son are dead. Maybe it is darker than accident and needs people to find out what happened.
(c) what is the truth about the death of Harry Talltrees the father of Fitch Talltrees of Archet? (p187 to 188) was it really a troll? (Harry is not a name given in TOR2e btw, but those who have the Cubicle 7 book Bree will recognise why I use it here)

With some work, these three can easily bridge a gap from Starter Set TN 18 into Full Core TN 20.