diff --git a/spring-data-mongodb/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/mongodb/repository/query/MongoQueryCreator.java b/spring-data-mongodb/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/mongodb/repository/query/MongoQueryCreator.java
index 4b47696c3..b3ea64e8d 100644
--- a/spring-data-mongodb/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/mongodb/repository/query/MongoQueryCreator.java
+++ b/spring-data-mongodb/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/mongodb/repository/query/MongoQueryCreator.java
@@ -117,8 +117,11 @@ class MongoQueryCreator extends AbstractQueryCreator<Query, Criteria> {
 		}
 
 		PersistentPropertyPath<MongoPersistentProperty> path = context.getPersistentPropertyPath(part.getProperty());
-		return from(part.getType(), where(path.toDotPath(MongoPersistentProperty.PropertyToFieldNameConverter.INSTANCE)),
-				(PotentiallyConvertingIterator) iterator);
+
+		return new Criteria().andOperator(
+				base,
+				from(part.getType(), where(path.toDotPath(MongoPersistentProperty.PropertyToFieldNameConverter.INSTANCE)),
+						(PotentiallyConvertingIterator) iterator));
 	}
 
 	/*
@@ -265,4 +268,4 @@ class MongoQueryCreator extends AbstractQueryCreator<Query, Criteria> {
 
 		return source.replaceAll("\\*", ".*");
 	}
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/spring-data-mongodb/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/mongodb/repository/AbstractPersonRepositoryIntegrationTests.java b/spring-data-mongodb/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/mongodb/repository/AbstractPersonRepositoryIntegrationTests.java
index 97a46f6e6..bc2b2e80a 100644
--- a/spring-data-mongodb/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/mongodb/repository/AbstractPersonRepositoryIntegrationTests.java
+++ b/spring-data-mongodb/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/mongodb/repository/AbstractPersonRepositoryIntegrationTests.java
@@ -432,4 +432,21 @@ public abstract class AbstractPersonRepositoryIntegrationTests {
 		List<Person> result = repository.findByCreatedAtLessThanManually(boyd.createdAt);
 		assertThat(result.isEmpty(), is(false));
 	}
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+
+	/**
+	 * @see DATAMONGO-521
+	 */
+	@Test
+	public void executesAndQueryCorrectly() {
+
+		List<Person> result = repository.findByFirstnameAndLastname("Dave", "Matthews");
+
+		assertThat(result, hasSize(1));
+		assertThat(result, hasItem(dave));
+
+		result = repository.findByFirstnameAndLastname("Oliver August", "Matthews");
+
+		assertThat(result, hasSize(1));
+		assertThat(result, hasItem(oliver));
+	}
+}
diff --git a/spring-data-mongodb/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/mongodb/repository/PersonRepository.java b/spring-data-mongodb/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/mongodb/repository/PersonRepository.java
index 8c9d84f78..ca5fc4d24 100644
--- a/spring-data-mongodb/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/mongodb/repository/PersonRepository.java
+++ b/spring-data-mongodb/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/mongodb/repository/PersonRepository.java
@@ -106,6 +106,8 @@ public interface PersonRepository extends MongoRepository<Person, String>, Query
 	 */
 	List<Person> findByFirstnameNotIn(Collection<String> firstnames);
 
+	List<Person> findByFirstnameAndLastname(String firstname, String lastname);
+
 	/**
 	 * Returns all {@link Person}s with an age between the two given values.
 	 * 
diff --git a/spring-data-mongodb/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/mongodb/repository/PersonRepositoryIntegrationTests.java b/spring-data-mongodb/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/mongodb/repository/PersonRepositoryIntegrationTests.java
index 45ebae97e..51196811e 100644
--- a/spring-data-mongodb/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/mongodb/repository/PersonRepositoryIntegrationTests.java
+++ b/spring-data-mongodb/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/mongodb/repository/PersonRepositoryIntegrationTests.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2002-2010 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2010-2012 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
diff --git a/spring-data-mongodb/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/mongodb/repository/query/MongoQueryCreatorUnitTests.java b/spring-data-mongodb/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/mongodb/repository/query/MongoQueryCreatorUnitTests.java
index 29e9f4830..25ed96b1e 100644
--- a/spring-data-mongodb/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/mongodb/repository/query/MongoQueryCreatorUnitTests.java
+++ b/spring-data-mongodb/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/mongodb/repository/query/MongoQueryCreatorUnitTests.java
@@ -97,7 +97,8 @@ public class MongoQueryCreatorUnitTests {
 				getAccessor(converter, "Oliver", person), context);
 		Query query = creator.createQuery();
 
-		assertThat(query, is(query(where("firstName").is("Oliver").and("friend").is(person))));
+		Criteria criteria = new Criteria().andOperator(where("firstName").is("Oliver"), where("friend").is(person));
+		assertThat(query, is(query(criteria)));
 	}
 
 	@Test
@@ -222,7 +223,7 @@ public class MongoQueryCreatorUnitTests {
 	}
 
 	/**
-	 * @see DATAMONGO
+	 * @see DATAMONGO-413
 	 */
 	@Test
 	public void createsOrQueryCorrectly() {